This 376-page book entitled "Making global trade work for people" presents an independent reassessment of the current system of global trade and looks at ways that it can be improved to contribute more effectively to human development. Chapter 11 includes discussions of the links of TRIPS (the World Trade Organization`s agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) with human development, with a focus on issues such as technology (including biotechnology), food security, biological resources and traditional knowledge. The book is the product of the Trade and Sustainable Human Development Project commissioned in mid-2000 by the United Nations Development Programme, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation (the Ford Foundation, Heinrich Böll Foundation and Wallace Global Fund joined the effort subsequently). See http://www.undp.org/dpa/publications/globaltrade.pdf or contact [email protected] for more information.

03/03/2003