Part 2-1: IPR and PGR State of the Art
Regulating Access and Benefit Sharing
Non-monetary benefit sharing
PGR under the auspices of FAO
Will Material Transfer Agreements Open Pandora's Box?
Nordic Approach
Biopiracy To Be Curtailed
African Model Legislation
African Model Law
Part 2-1: IPR and PGR State of the Art
FAO International Treaty website
Standard MTA: read appendix G
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Countries' Interdependence in the Area of Plant Genetic Resources
Re-situating the benefits from biodiversity
Part 2-2: General
Sui Generis Systems: Obligations and options for developing countries
Further reading on TRIPS
Part 2-2: PV Protection
More details about the difference of patent and UPOV systems
Design and Implementation of IPR Regimes to Support Plant Breeding in Developing Countries
Framework for the Introduction of Plant Variety Protection in Developing Countries
Part 2-2: Farmers
International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources 1989
Convention On Biological Diversity: Article 8
Farmers’ Rights in the binding IT PGRFA - read Preamble and Article 9
International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) - Opening Statement at CBD-8j Meeting 2006
WIPO IGC
FTAs: trading away traditional knowledge
Part 3: Intellectual Property Rights
Public agricultural research and intellectual property rights; a call for new institutional policies
Humanitarian Use Licenses
Open Source Mechanisms: The Example of BIOS
An IP Policy Primer
Policy on Intellectual Property
Part 3: Access to Traditional Knowledge
Material Transfer Agreements
Model Outgoing MTA for non genebank material
The International Network of Ex Situ Collections
The Nordic approach
Standard MTA applied by Future Harvest Centres
Material Transfer Agreement (Specimen of the CGN)
In-bound and out-bound PGR flows
Wrap-Up
Agreement to establish a consortium for the Generation Challenge Program: Cultivating Plant Diversity for the Resource-poor
Papers on genetic resource policies produced by GCP for further reading