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Articles and book chapters on Farmers' Rights – global level

Here you will find listed a collection of articles, book chapters, issue papers and smaller reports dealing with Farmers' Rights on the global level. To access summaries of the listed works, please click on the links below.

Bertacchini, E. E. (2008):
Coase, Pigou and the Potato: Whither Farmers' Rights?
Ecological Economics, available online 17 March 2008
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Andersen, Regine (2007):
Protecting Farmers' Rights in the Global IPR Regime: Challenges and Options
Trade Insights, Vol 3, No 2, pp. 30-32.
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Salazaar, Rene; Bert Visser & Niels Louwaars (2007):
Protecting Farmers' New Varieties: New Approaches to Rights on Collective Innovations in Plant Genetic Resources
World Development, Vol 35 No 9, pp. 1515-1528
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Andersen, Regine (2006):
Realising Farmers' Rights under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Summary of Findings from the Farmers' Rights Project (Phase 1)
FNI Report 11/2006 (Lysaker, Norway: The Fridtjof Nansen Institute)
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Andersen, Regine (2006):
Farmers' Rights and agrobiodiversity
GTZ Issue Paper series; People, Food and Biodiversity (Eschborn: GTZ)
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Louwaars, Niels P. (2005)
Farmers' Rights and Seed Programmes
Seed Info – Official Newsletter of the WANA Seed Network, 28, pp. 2-3
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Moore, Gerald & Witold Tymowski (2005):
Explanatory Guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 57 (Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN)

Available at: www.iucn.org/themes/law/pdfdocuments/EPLP57EN.pdf

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Borowiak, C. (2004):
Farmers' Rights: Intellectual Property Regimes and the Struggle over Seeds
Politics & Society, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 511-543
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Brush, Stephen B. (2004):
Rights over Genetic Resources and the Demise of the Biological Commons
Pp. 219-255 in Stephen B. Brush: Farmers' Bounty. Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press)
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Srinivasan, C.S. (2003):
Exploring the Feasibility of Farmers' Rights
Development Policy Review, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 419-447
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Rani, M. Geetha (2000):
Community Gene Banks Sustain Food Security and Farmers' Rights
Biotechnology and Development Monitor, No. 41, pp. 19-22
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Esquinas-Alcázar, Jose (1998):
Farmers' Rights
Pp. 207-217 in R. Evenson, D. Gollin & V. Santaniello (eds) (1998): Agricultural Values of Plant Genetic Resources (Wallingford: FAO/CEIS/CABI Publishing)
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Wright, B. D. (1998):
Intellectual and Farmers' Rights
Pp. 219-232 in R. Evenson, D. Gollin & V. Santaniello (eds) (1998): Agricultural Values of Plant Genetic Resources (Wallingford: FAO/CEIS/CABI Publishing)
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Gollin, D, (1998)
Valuing Farmers' Rights
Pp. 233-245 in R. Evenson, D. Gollin & V. Santaniello (eds) (1998): Agricultural Values of Plant Genetic Resources (Wallingford: FAO/CEIS/CABI Publishing)
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Swaminathan, M. S. (1998):
Farmers' Rights and Plant Genetic Resources
Biotechnology and Development Monitor, No. 36, September/December 1998, pp. 6-9
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Butler, Bees & Robin Pistorius, Robin (1996):
How Farmers' Rights Can Be Used to Adapt Plant Breeders' Rights
Biotechnology and Development Monitor, No. 28, September 1996, pp. 7-11
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Brush, Stephen (1992):
Farmers' Rights and Genetic Conservation in Traditional Farming Systems
World Development, Vol. 20, No. 11, pp. 1617-1630
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