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Some of the more active resource pages • BIO-IPR • FAO • Bird flu • Biodiversity rights legislation • Bilateral deals with TRIPS plus
• Bilaterals.org - everything that's not happening at the WTO • Fighting FTAs: the growing resistance to bilateral free trade and investment agreements
This section of the GRAIN website is devoted to on-the-ground initiatives and coalitions of people working to strengthen their control over livelihoods and biodiversity. It is GRAIN's intent to see this as a growing section. If you know of resources, groups or projects that fall within this area of interest and want them featured here, drop us a note at gr (at) grain.org. Asserting autonomy & sovereignty: To take food production from the hands of farmers and give it to a few corporations is more than an act of betrayal; it is plunder. Imposing what crops to grow and how to grow them for whom, not only ... Confronting GM agriculture: 'GM agriculture' comes from the kind of 'agriculture' that uses genetically modified organisms. Actually a misnomer since it is nothing but industrial agribusiness. With GM there is no culture to spea... Freedom from IPR: From the start, the extension of 'right' to protect 'intellectual creations' has been to ensure that the so-called 'inventor' gets to monopolise his 'invention'. Intellectual property rights – whether...
Until relatively recently agricultural research was the domain of farmers. Over generations, they built up an impressive base of agricultural biodiversity, technology, and knowledge that was adapted t... GM contamination - an information resource on the implications of GM contamination, seeking to support those working to reject GM crops. Includes The GM Tracker - Tracking GM developments in Asia and the Pacific. Hybrid rice - a resource to help people track the push for hybrid rice and unmask the propaganda surrounding it. Bt cotton - a resource tracking Bt cotton, a critical technology in the biotech industry's efforts to push GM agriculture around the world. Over the past years, trade has gradually become a dominant, and much contested, organising principle of international relations and domestic economies. Even the most remote rural areas of countries li... BIO-IPR - an electronic information service produced by GRAIN. Its purpose is to disseminate news and analysis about recent developments in the field of intellectual property rights (IPRs) related to biodiversity and associated knowledge, especially in developing countries. Biodiversity Rights Legislation (BRL) - a collection of emerging laws that directly affect people's control over agricultural biodiversity in developing countries. TRIPS-plus - focusing on how TRIPS-plus spreads patents and other intellectual property rights on life, from the seeds farmers sow to the genes of indigenous peoples. TRIPS review - pulls together documents from and about the review of Article 27.3(b), taking place in the WTO TRIPS Council. |
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