@article{20529,
      recid = {20529},
      author = {Group, Crucible},
      title = {People, plants, and patents : the impact of intellectual  property on biodiversity, conservation, trade, and rural  society /},
      pages = {xxiii, 116 pages :},
      note = {Contents : 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; 2. Plants :  Plant genetic erosion; National conservation strategies;  International strategies; The Convention on biological  diversity; 3. People : Community innovation; National  (public and private) innovation; 4. Patents : GATT and  agricultural biodiversity; The patent option; The UPOV  option; SUI GENERIS possibilities; The special case of  international centres; Appendices : 1. A brief chronology  of the patent debate in the North; 2. The biodiversity  Convention; 3. TRIPS - Trade related IP; 4.  National-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  agreements;.},
      abstract = {People, Plants, and Patents examines intellectual property  and the patenting of life forms as bluntly and as fairly as  possible. People, Plants, and Patents helps to identify the  major points and the rangeof policy alternatives in this  extraordinarily important, fast-changing, and politicized  field.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/20529},
}