World Bank report on IPRs and plant breeding in developing countries
The World Bank`s Agriculture and Rural Development Department has just published "Intellectual property rights: Designing regimes to support plant breeding in developing countries". This 77-page report is based on a field study of the impact of strengthened intellectual property rights (IPRs) on the breeding industries in China, Colombia, India, Kenya and Uganda. The analysis also makes use of secondary data and interviews with stakeholders from other countries. IPRs covering biotechnology processes and products are considered on numerous occasions e.g. in chapter 5 which examines experiences in the commercial seed sector with plant variety protection and the protection of biotechnology. See
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTARD/Resources/IPR_ESW.pdf or contact
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