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  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Executive Summary
  • The Policy Environment
  • Nurturing Diversity
  • Diversifying Innovation
  • Divining the Trade Options
  • 1. Policy
  • The Growing Importance of Plant Biodiversity
  • The Changing Role of Intellectual Property
  • The Place of Innovation
  • The Human Context
  • Different Viewpoints
  • 2. Plants
  • Plant Genetic Erosion
  • National Conservation Strategies
  • International Strategies
  • The Convention on Biological Diversity
  • Different Viewpoints
  • 3. People
  • Community Innovation
  • National (Public and Private) Innovation4. Patents
  • GATT and Agricultural Biodiversity
  • The Patent Option
  • The UPOV Option
  • Sui Generis Possibilities
  • The Special Case of International Centres
  • Different Viewpoints
  • Appendices
  • 1. A Brief Chronology of the Patent Debate in the North
  • 2. The Biodiversity Convention
  • 3. TRIPS â€? Trade-Related IP
  • 4. Nationalâ€?International Seed Enterprises: Perspective from the Private Sector
  • 5. Comparison of Main Provisions of PBR under UPOV 1978 and 1991, and Patent Law
  • 6. Patents on Plants
  • 7. Trade Secrets and Material Transfer AgreementsGlossary
  • Acronyms
  • Bibliography