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In this issue: New PVP Act of Ghana: Harsh protest by civil society -- Private varieties and jailed farmers -- The Inventory on Farmersâ Rights is now online -- Towards an African Centred AfCFTA Intellectual Property Protocol -- UPOV Symposium on Harvested Material
In this issue: Practical Manual on the Right to Seeds in Europe -- Article: UPOV 91 - Not Fit for the Future -- OECD Report: Making Better Policies for Food Systems -- UPOV: The great seed robbery (by GRAIN)
In this issue: Press Release: UPOV Misleads Developing Countries with Absurdly Incorrect Information -- New Report: Plant Variety Protection in Practice in Vietnam: The Pains in the Gains Achieved -- Views on the private and non-commercial exception of UPOV -- Essentially Derived Varieties: No more questions? --
In this issue: New APBREBES publication - a compilation of selected literature -- Research Brief on the Right to Seeds and Intellectual Property Rights -- Research Paper on UNDROP by the South Center -- Governance of Intellectual Property over Plant Varieties in Asia
In this issue: UPOV Meeting Report -- Research Brief on Foreign Policy and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants -- Policy Brief: Multilateral Regulatory Regimes and Plant Breeding -- Article: Farmer-plant-breeders and the law on Java
In this issue: Intellectual Property Rights and the Realization of Farmersâ Rights under the ITPGRFA â A Conflict? -- Thai House Committee on Trans-Pacific Partnership presses clarification on Thailand official observer status in UPOV -- The importance of Food Sovereignty for the Farm to Fork strategy and the New Green Deal -- New Book: Local Knowledge, Intellectual Property and Agricultural Innovation
In this issue: Open letter / Press Release: Stop double standards in Free Trade Agreements -- The Covid-19Pandemic and the need to change our food systems -- Seed security in the wake of the Corona crisis -- Harnessing the Multilateral Patent and PVP Regimes to Advance FoodSecurity -- âKeeping seeds in our handsâ: the rise of seedactivismâ -- 348 organizationsfrom 46 countriescelebrate international seed day
In this issue: Editorial -- International Seed Day 2020: Citizens of the World, reclaim our seed -- The UN Declaration on Peasants' Rights(UNDROP): Is Article 19 on seed rightsadequatelybalancingintellectual propertyrightsand the right to food? -- The role of community seed banks in achieving farmersâ rights -- Intelectuall property rights and agricultural development: Evidence from a worldwide index of IPRs in agriculture (1961-2018)
In this issue: Editorial -- New Video: Monopolies on Seeds: How Free Trade Agreements threaten Food Security and Biodiversity -- A historical institutional analysis of access governance of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture in Ethiopia -- Copyright or copyleft: An assessment of farmer-innovatorsâ attitudes towards intellectual property rights -- Joint statement by United Nations human rights experts on the occasion of the 1st anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP)