APBREBES Updates on Plant Variety Protection
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2.Report on the UPOV spring 2017 session
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Apbrebes – Updates on Plant Variety Protection
Editorial
Pakistan’s Plant Breeders’ Rights Act adopted by the National Assembly
Publications
African Centre for Biodiversity (February 2017) The BAYER-MONSANTO merger: Implications for South Africa’s agricultural future and its smallholder farmers
Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition (October 2016): Right to Food and Nutrition Watch, “Keeping Seeds in Peoples’ Hands“
Bric Wall (6 November 2016): New Requirements in Brazil for Plant Variety Protection Applications in View of Brazil’s Biodiversity Law
Halewood, M (ed.) (2016) Farmers’ Crop Varieties and Farmers’ Rights. Challenges in Taxonomy and Law
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Apbrebes – Updates on Plant Variety Protection issue # 26, 13 december 2016
Updates on Plant Variety Protection
Issue #26, 13 December 2016
Editorial
APBREBES report on UPOV’s 2016 Autumn Session
IP Watch: Panel Explores Relation Between Plant Breeders’ Convention and Plant Treaty
Recommendations of the Global Consultation on Farmers’ Rights, held 27th to 30th September in Indonesia
Publications
GRAIN (2016) New Trade Deals Legalise Corporate Theft, Make Farmers’ Seeds Illegal
Shalini Bhutani (2016): Intellectual Property Rights Policy Fails to Address Farmers’ Rights and Needs
Claire H. Luby, Irwin L. Goldman (2016): Freeing Crop Genetics through the Open Source Seed Initiative
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Apbrebes – Updates on Plant Variety Protection issue # 25, 21 ottobre 2016
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Editorial
UPOV’s 2016 Autumn Session – Upcoming Issues
Report on the Global Consultation on Farmers’ Rights, held 27th to 30th September in Bali, Indonesia
Panel: WIPO Assistance Should Provide Developing Countries with Choices on Plant Variety Protection
Publication: The Effect of Intellectual Property Rights on Agricultural Productivity
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APBREBES – Updates on Plant Variety Protection Issue #22, 29 April 2016
Updates on Plant Variety Protection
Issue #22, 29 April 2016
Editorial
Right to Seeds For Peasants to be discussed at the Human Rights Council
The new Seed Law of Venezuela
Civil Society Letter to US Congress over concerns about TPP’s impact on food security and sustainable development
News (News Ghana): “FSG tells Parliament to replace Plant Breeders’ Bill with a “Sui Generis
News (Manitoba Cooperator): “Tracking down illicit seed sellers”
Publication: Seed systems smallholder farmers use
Publication: FAO Voluntary Guide for National Seed Policy Formulation
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