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Forest conflict in Asia is on the rise as various stakeholders have different views about and interests in the management of increasingly scarce resources. Unfortunately, in many instances, local communities and indigenous peoples suffer the most when such conflicts play out. The biggest...
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"Debates around Common Property Resources and Intellectual Property Rights fail to consider traditional and indigenous rights regimes that regulate plant resource exploitation, establish bundles of powers and obligations for heterogeneous groups of users, and create differential entitlements to...
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local varieties and related knowledge in developing countries. Many attempts to protect genetic diversity and local … knowledge through IPR are in jeopardy because of misunderstanding on the terms of the debate and misrepresentation of the claims … perceptions of foodstuff production and associated knowledge. It is easier and more feasible to stress the importance of a given …
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With the growth of private investment in developing-country agriculture, new advances in the biological sciences, and rapid integration of developing countries into the global trading system, intellectual property rights (IPRs) have become an important concern for policymakers, corporate...
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yield growth, for example, by incentivizing private-sector investment in cultivar improvement. We address this knowledge gap …
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The African Development Bank (AfDB), in commissioning this report to be prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), highlighted the need for a comprehensive, evidenced-based review of agricultural biotechnology in order to better understand its current status, issues,...
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traditional obstacles to improving their livelihoods. To cope with these obstacles, the rural poor draw on indigenous knowledge … and innovate through local experimentation and adaptation. Indigenous knowledge alone, however, is not enough to deal with … for biofuels require complementary knowledge from formal agricultural research and development (R&D) and support from …
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studied consumers' answers to various knowledge, attitude, perception, and practice (KAPP) questions also collected through …
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also identified. The review concludes that there is an increasing need to work in partnership and to share knowledge and …
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This research has been undertaken to improve our understanding of stakeholders’ knowledge and perception about … to every individual’s decisionmaking. Knowledge can affect attitudes and behavioral intentions, and a positive attitude …
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