Action Aid Food Rights Campaign: TRIPs review - Resources related to Action Aid's campaign on genetic resources with links to papers on IPRs, TRIPs, GM crops, agricultural trade and corporate control.
Blogging Biodiversity - A useful personal weblog on international negotiations on biodiversity issues.
Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR) - UK Government IPR Commission's website containing background, papers, conference reports and UK government response. Commission's Report: "Integrating IPRs and Development Policy" available in many languages.
Comparing sui generis rights systems - Theme issue of Biotechnology and Development Monitor journal on Plant Variety Rights and sui generis systems. Journal covers all aspects of IPRs, seed systems and biotechnology. Links through home page of journal.
Intellectual Property and Community Rights in African Agriculture: Implications for Small Farmers - Authoritative introduction to these issues by Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN) concerning African countries that are being forced to choose between two conflicting paths for agricultural research and development: one rooted in the knowledge and practices of its farmers and agricultural biodiversity or one dependent on the products of Northern corporations.
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - UKabc portal on the IT PGRFA (International Seed Treaty) that governs the access, use, conservation and development of the genetic resources of food security crop and forage species. Treaty outlaws IPRs on selected PGRFA. Links to all official FAO, media and CSO resources on the Treaty.
People, Plants and Patents - Full text of 1994 book on the impact of intellectual property on trade, agricultural biodiversity, and rural society by The Crucible Group, hosted by IDRC.
Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) - QUNO publications on Trade and Intellectual Property, including aspects related to: Food, Sui Generis systems, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Traditional Knowledge
Seeding Solutions - Full text and publication details of Volume 1 (ownership, conservation and exchange of genetic resources) and Volume 2 (legal mechanisms) which update People, Plants and Patents. Published by The Crucible Group/IDRC in 2000.
Small-scale Producers' Intellectual Rights to Agricultural Biodiversity - Introduction to the issues in a Kenyan context, with an emphasis on farmers, pastoralists and fisherfolk, and the need for protocols on intellectual property. Includes Via Campesina's statement on Farmers' Rights.
Syngenta Foundation For Sustainable Agriculture - Explanatory information and links on Intellectual Property Rights in the context of the need to conserve and use of plant genetic diversity for improving productivity in agriculture and sustaining human existence and well being. The foundation is funded by the parent company - Syngenta.
Trade, Intellectual Property, Food and Biodiversity - Discussion paper prepared for the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) on key issues and options for the review of Article 27.3(b) of the WTO/TRIPs Agreement. Includes discussion of impacts on food security and agricultural biodiversity. [PDF]
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Prior Art Database (TEK*PAD) - An online, searchable archive of public domain documented uses of traditional ecological knowledge concerning indigenous knowledge and plant species, necessary to establish prior art. Includes taxonomic data, ethnobotanical uses, scientific/medical papers, and patent applications.
TRIPs, Biodiversity and Commonwealth Countries - Discussion paper prepared for the Commonwealth Secretariat on capacity building priorities for the Review of TRIPs Article 27.3(b). Extensive links to related papers and sites.
TRIPs, Sui Generis and Plant Variety Protection - Third World Network's pages on IP issues. Extensive and historical coverage of the issues from an authoritative developing country perspective.
World Patent System - Review by GRAIN of moves by the World Intellectual Property Organisation to implement a single global system for approval and administration of patents.
WorldTrade Organisation - TRIPs / Patents pages - WTO's pages on the Agreement on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property rights (TRIPs), highlighting the patents clauses which include genetic resources patents. Links to all other aspects of trade and intellectual property.
Porto Alegre Treaty to Share the Global Commons - Full text and background of proposed treaty designed to ensure that governments and Indigenous Peoples, who are the caretakers of their part of the genetic commons, establish the appropriate statutory mechanisms needed to ensure both sovereignty and open access to the world's genetic diversity. (February 2, 2002)
