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BIO-IPR Resource Pointer NEWS CLIPS & BLOGS
Marcelo Canton, "Soja: Monsanto negocia con el Gobierno
el cobro de regalías", Clarín, Buenos Aires, el 29 de
agosto de 2008. [El Gobierno y la semillera Monsanto están
a punto de cerrar un acuerdo que implicará que la compañía
empiece a cobrar a los productores rurales regalías por sus
semillas.]
Datuk Indrani Thuraisingham, "Food
security: Think twice on seed banks", New Straits Times,
Kuala Lumpur, 28 August 2008. [In situ conservation and a
community registry must be included in Malaysia's National
Food Security Policy to ensure continuation of our
heritage and culture through conservation of food
sovereignty.]
Makarim
Wibisono, "The responsible virus and sharing benefits",
Jakarta Post, Opinion and Editorial, 27 August 2008.
[Viruses are, unequivocally, genetic resources subject to
national sovereignty. A response to Holbooke and Garrett.]
Steve Herman,
"India's conservationists bugged about growing insect
poaching", Voice of America, New Delhi, 26 August 2008.
[Conservationists in South Asia are raising an alarm about
a growing illegal trade in insects.]
"Tanzanian agriculture minister blames
low productivity on farmer-saved seed", Daily News,
Arusha, 25 August 2008. [According to the Minister for
Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives of Tanzania, Mr
Stephen Wasira, more than 90 per cent of farmers in the
country use "recycled" seeds, which "invariably" have very
low production.]
Claudia
Kuhns, "DNC, Obama hype and agriculture", Denver Urban
Agriculture Examiner, 25 August 2008. [In 2007, Obama hired
Moses Mercado from Ogilvy Government Relations to be one
of his top advisers. Ogilvy Government Relations
represents Monsanto among other not so squeaky clean
corporate interests.]
Lisa M. Brownlee, "Monsanto sues over patented seed",
Centre Daily Times, 24 August 2008. [US Farmer Lauren
David lost his case against Monsanto, both at trial and at
the federal circuit, and was fined $786,989. Last week, he
appealed to the Supreme Court.]
Dennis Brutus and Patrick Bond, "Africa
forced to clean up after a party it didn't go to", Green
Left Weekly, 23 August 2008. [Ecological debt is now being
tabulated. Seed bio-piracy "contributes some US$66 billion
annually to the US economy? say Vandana Shiva and Yash
Tandon.]
"Food for thought: The wrong side of copyright",
editorial, Daily Mirror, Colombo, 20 August 2008. [Sri
Lankan civil society organizations are planning to
initiate campaigns showing the negative impact of TRIPS'
on the right to food.]
"Blow to the
intellectual property rules of the Andean Community",
Bolpress, La Paz, 14 August 2008. [Colombia, Ecuador and
Peru agreed to let Peru legislate intellectual property on
its own to accommodate its Free Trade Agreement with
United States, despite Bolivia's opposition. The FTA
violates Decision 486 of the Andean Community as it
requires the patenting of biodiversity, even traditional
knowledge.]
"Agri dept says no offer made to Mansanto", The News,
Pakistan, 14 August 2008. [Spokesman for the Punjap
Agriculture Department said Monsanto had no legal patent
in Pakistan and the provincial and federal governments
were under no obligation to pay to the company for
Bollgard-I.]
Catherine Saez, "International seed treaty's
goals of biodiversity, food security tough to implement",
Intellectual Property Watch, Geneva, 7 August 2008.
"Commercialization of hoodia cultivation takes off
in Namibia", New Era, Windhoek, 7 August 2008. [Rumours
abound that Unilever wants to take out a patent to dry the
hoodia plant.]
"Legisladores dan tiro de gracia a la agricultura
nacional", Nuestro País, San José, 6 de agosto 2008. [La
Comisión de Asuntos Agropecuarios de la Asamblea
Legislativa de Costa Rica aprobó, en forma unánime, la
reforma integral a la Ley de Semillas, un proyecto que
defiende los intereses de la industria semillera
trasnacional.]
"Institute warns of illegal foreign bio research in
Indonesia", Asia Pulse, Jakarta, 6 August 2008.
Phusadee Arunmas, "Geographical protection sought
for Hom Mali", Bangkok Post, 5 August 2008. [Thailand is
applying with the European Union for geographical
indication protection for Thai Hom Mali (Jasmine) rice from
Thung Kula Ronghai.]
"Switzerland ratifies 1991 Act of
the UPOV Convention", UPOV press release, Union for the
Protection of New Plant Varieties, Geneva, 1 August 2008.
Aftab Maken, "Experts oppose Punjab's
offer for Bt cotton rights", The News, Pakistan, 1 August
2008. [Scientists and technical experts block the Punjab
government's offer of Rs5 billion to Monsanto for getting
exclusive rights to Bollguard-I for the production of Bt
cotton.]
Jonathan M. Gitlin, "Mars maps the cocoa
genome", Ars Technica, 25 July 2008. [The genome work is a
joint collaboration with USDA and IBM; Mars plans to make
the entire sequence freely available to all through the
Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture,
rather than attempting to patent or restrict access.]
"Highlights from
Ecuador's draft constitution", Associated Press, 24 July
2008. ["The appropriation of genetic resources that contain
biological diversity and agricultural biodiversity will be
prohibited."]
Silvia Ribeiro, "Mexico: Want to
cut food production? Sow GM seed!", Scoop, 24 July 2008.
[A new study shows that using patented GM seeds leads to
lower productivity.]
Linn Cohen-Cole, "During a world food crisis,
Monsanto just raised the price of its corn seed $100 a
bag", Op-ed news, 23 July 2008.
Réseau Semences Paysannes, "Les agriculteurs qui vendent
leurs semences ou plants ne sont pas des délinquants",
Communiqué de presse, RSP, 22 juillet 2008.
China Bio Today, "Waves of changes in Chinese patent law
and regulations: An update, Part II", iStockAnalyst, 21
July 2008.
Arun Shrivastava,"La mort du riz en Inde", Global Research,
Canada, 20 juillet 2008. [Nous mangerons bientôt du riz
génétiquement modifié, inventé par les compagnies
semencières multinationales]
Mathieu Bonkoungou, "Burkina launches
Monsanto GMO cotton to boost crop", Reuters, 21 July 2007.
[Royalties from seed production will be split with local
farmers receiving 72% of seed sales and Monsanto 28%,
officials said. "It's a co-ownership scheme. The gene
belongs to Monsanto, but all the scientific work to select
and evaluate performance and toxicity has been done by
Burkinabe scientists on Burkinabe varieties."]
Greenpeace Germany,
"Extensive patent on pigs issued", Greenpeace Press
release, 16 July 2008. [The European Patent Office in
Munich is today granting an extensive patent on a method
of breeding pigs despite international criticism and lack
of clarity on the patent's legality.]
"Bové et les faucheurs d'OGM
lancent le mouvement des semeurs volontaires", Agence
France-Presse, 13 juillet 2008. ["On va lancer un
mouvement d'échanges gratuits et désobéir en plantant dans
son champ, dans son potager ou sur son balcon des semences
interdites", a indiqué M. Bové]
Niu Shuping, "China approves
big GMO budget amid food worries", Reuters, 10 July 2008.
[The programme aims to obtain genes with great potential
commercial value whose intellectual property rights belong
to China]
Hank Lohmeyer, "Delta seed
producers stand behind patent", Delta County Independent,
9 July 2008. [PodNers LLC has appealed what Boulder
attorney David Lee terms 'a controversial decision' by the
US Patent Office that PodNers' patent on the Enola bean is
invalid because the invention is not fully described in
the patent.] PAPERS & REPORTS
Brian Wolf, "The
monopolization of biodiversity: Terminator bioscience and
the criminalization of the harvest", Theory & Science, Vol
9, 2007. BOOKS
Silke von
Lewinski, "Indigenous heritage & intellectual property,
Second Edition", Kluwer Law International, April 2008,
ISBN 9041124926, ISBN 13: 9789041124920. USD price:
$218.00
"West African catalogue
of plant species and varieties", FAO, Rome, 2008. [This
document presents the list of varieties or varietal types
whose seeds "can" be produced and commercialized within the
Central and West Africa territory made up of seventeen
Member States.]
Keith Aoki, "Seed wars: controversies and
cases on plant genetic resources and intellectual
property", Carolina Academic Press, Durham NC, 2008,
280pp. CAMPAIGNS & ACTIONS
LeiLani Dowell,
"People's Tribunal prepares verdict in Colombia", Workers
World, 26 July 2008. INTERNET & MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES
"ICIMOD launches 'Access and Benefit Sharing' knowledge
portal", International Centre for Integrated Mountain
Development, Katmandu, 30 July 2008.
"An evening
with Percy Schmeiser", organised by G.E. Free Kootenays and
Kootenay Food Strategy Society, recorded by Deconstructing
Dinner, 10 July 2008.
Andrea Ploeger, "No to the
privatisation of biodiversity", May 2008. [In this video,
members of the farmers organisation Via Campesina talk
about the dangers of the privatisation of natural
resources, the commericalisation of family farming and
GMOs.] OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
Maurice Dufour, "How to make mud cookies", Dollars and
Sense, 10 July 2008. [A traditional Haitian remedy for
hunger pangs could be a path to riches.]
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