Protect Knowledge to Feed the World?
Application of intellectual property rights in international agriculture today and tomorrow
Muri-bei-Bern, Switzerland, September 26, 2002
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Background Documents on the Subject of the Symposium

Articles, Reports, Books

Biber-Klemm, Susette:
Farmers' Knowledge at Risk: Are Intellectual Property Rights the Solution?
in: InfoAgrar News No.12 / April 2002, p.6-7
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Bragdon, Susan (Symposium Speaker):
Recent Intellectual Property Rights Controversies and Issues at the CGIAR
in: Santaniello, V. et al., June 2000 (see below)
110 KB

Charles, Daniel:
Seeds of Discontent
- Plant breeders,developing nations, and agricultural firms battle for control of the world ’s stock of crop diversity, in: Science Vol.294, 26 October 2001, S.772-775
212 KB

Chaytor, Beatrice / Gerster, Richard / Herzog, Theresa:
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD): Exploring the Creation of a Mediation Mechanism, Study commissioned by the Government of Switzerland, published in World Intellectual Property, March 2002
80 KB

Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR):
Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy
London, September 2002

Correa, Carlos M.:
Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property - Issues and options surrounding the protection of traditional knowledge. A Discussion Paper. Quaker United Nations Office Geneva, November 2001
239 KB

Crucible II Group:
Seeding Solutions: Volume 1
- Policy Options for Genetic Resources (People, Plants, and Patents Revisited), IDRC/IPGRI/DHF 2000 [PDF-Version, 895 KB]
(also avilable in french and spanish)
Seeding Solutions: Volume 2 - Options for national laws governing control over genetic resources and biological innovations, IDRC/IPGRI/DHF 2001
1081 KB

Cullet, Philippe:
Property Rights Regimes over Biological Resources, forthcoming in 19 Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (2001)
248 KB

Ekpere, Johnson A. (Symposium Speaker):
“Sui Generis” Systems: The Case of the “OAU Model Law on the Protection of the Rights of Local Communities, Farmers and Breeders and for the Regulation of Access to Biological Resources”, Paper presented at the “International Seminar on Systems for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge”. New Delhi, India, 
April 3-5, 2002
40 KB

Egziabher, Tewolde Berhan Gebre:
The Human Individual and Community in the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Resources, Lecture presented at the Annual Darwin Initiative meeting,  London, 14 March 2002
75 KB

Girsberger, Martin: 
Keine Patente mehr auf Weizen und Co.? - Die immaterialgüterrechtsrelevanten Bestimmungen des "Internationalen Vertrages über pflanzengenetische Ressourcen für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft" der FAO, in: sic! Zeitschrift für Immaterialgüter-, Informations- und Wettbewerbsrecht, 2002 Nr. 7+8

Grieder, Christina E.:
Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property, in: InfoAgrar News No.8 / April 2000, p.6-7

InfoAgrar News No.12 / April 2002
Special issue on the protection of knowledge in international agriculture
496 KB

Krattiger, Anatole F. (Symposium Speaker):
Public-Private Partnerships for Efficient Proprietary Biotech Management
and Transfer, and Increased Private Sector Investments
. A Briefings Paper With Six Proposals Commissioned by UNIDO. IP Strategy Today, 4-2002.
445 KB

Lesser, William
The Effects of Intellectual Property Rights on Foreign Direct Investment and Imports into Developing Countries in the Post-TRIPS Era, in: IP Strategy Today, No. 5-2002, p.1-16
510 KB

Mariano, Rafael V. (Symposium Speaker):
“Genetic Imperialism” And “Bio-Serfdom”. The Implications Of Genetic Engineering For Farmers And Agriculture, Keynote of the “Citizens Protecting Health and the Environment Regional Workshop on Genetic Engineering” 30 March - 1 April 2000, Penang, Malaysia
32 KB

Santaniello, V. / Evenson R. E. /  Zilberman D. / Carlson G. A. (ed.):
Agriculture and Intellectual Property Rights
: Economic, Institutional and Implementation Issues in Biotechnology, June 2000

Sharma, Sudhirendar:
Biopiracy Unlimited, The Ecological Foundation, New Delhi, India
12 KB

Watal, Jayashree: 
Intellectual Property Rights and Agriculture: Interests of Developing Countries
paper prepared for the World Bank’s Integrated Program of Research and Capacity Building to enhance participation of developing countries in the WTO 2000 Negotiations, October 1999 (Draft for Discussion)
128 KB

Wendt, Jan / Izquierdo Juan:
Biotechnology and Development: A balance between IPR protection and benefit-sharing, in: EJB Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, Vol.4 (2001), Issue 3, Valparaíso, Chile.
 

Websites

Center for International Development at Harvard University (CID)
Science, Technology and Innovation Program: Background Papers: 
Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights

Eldis:
Intellectual Property Rights

FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Documents

FAO Electronic Conference:
"The impact of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on food and agriculture in developing countries"

IPRsonline.org
Internet portal on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Sustainable Development by ICTSD

SciDev.Net: Dossier Intellectual Property
News, Reports, Policy Briefs, Comments, etc.

SciDev.Net: Dossier Indigenous Knowledge
Key Documents, Definitions, Links, News, Policy Briefs, etc.

Third World Network:
Biodiversity, Access, Indigenous Knowledge and IPRs

UK Agricultural Biodiversity Coalition (UKabc):
IPRs, Access & Benefit Sharing

 

 

 
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