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NCCR Workshop "Rights to Animal Genetic Resources"
27-28 November 2008, WTI, Berne, Switzerland

In Respect of current developments at the interface of animal genetic resources, trade, and intellectual property rights, this workshop aims at identifying core questions and further research needs.

Rights to Animal Genetic Resources - Final Program.pdf

Rights to Animal Genetic Resources - Invitation.pdf

Right to Animal Genetic Resources - List of Participants.pdf


Presentations:


Traditional Animal Breeding Property Rights and Herdbooks.pdf, Catherine Marguerat, Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture, Switzerland.

The Animal Breeding in Developing Countries Context.pdf, Markos Tibbo, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Syria.

Economic Value of Traits of Indegenous Cattle in Developing Countries.pdf, Girma T. Kassie, The Global Mountain Program, Ethiopia

The Difference Between Plant and Animal Genetic Resources, Asko Mäki-Tanila, MTT Agrifood Research, Finland.


Biotechnology in animal breeding – present stage & forseeable developments.pdf, Christine Flury, Swiss College of Agriculture, Switzerland.

What does Animal Breeding Industry expect from Biotechnology Developments.pdf, Alain Malafosse, Union Nationale des Coopératives d’Elevage et d’Insémination Artificielle, France.

Legal Questions Resulting from Biotechnology - Patent Law.pdf, Michelangelo Temmerman, World Trade Institute, Switzerland.

The Question of the Monsanto Pig and Brassica Patent Cases.pdf, Jürg Bilang, European Patent Office, Germany.

Opposition to Monsanto’s Pig Patent - the Reasons.pdf, Christoph Then, No Patents on Seeds, Germany.

Trade in Animal Genetics, Competition, and Concentration.pdf, Susanne Gura, Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung, Germany.

Further Regulation of Global Exchange of Animal Genetic Resources.pdf, Sipke Joost Hiemstra, Centre for Genetic Resources, Wageningen UR, the Netherlands.

Livestock Keepers' Rights, Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development, Germany.

Sui-generis Registration of Animal Genetic Resources in India.pdf, Poonam Jayant Singh, WIPO Worldwide Academy, Turin, Italy.


Links and Publications:


Anne Valle Zárate, Katinka Musavaya and Cornelia Schäfer (Eds.), Gene Flow in Animal Genetic Resources: A Study on Status, Impact and Trends, Institute of Animal Production in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Hohenheim, 518 p., available at: http://dad.fao.org/cgi-bin/getblob.cgi?sid=6ed07aa1e5e161dfe381a313f9f51453,268.

Asko Mäki-Tanila, Morten Walløe Tvedt, Hans Ekström and Erling Fimland, Management and Exchange of Animal Genetic Resources – Nordic perspective, Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen, 2008, 81 p., available at: http://norden.org/pub/miljo/jordogskov/uk/TN2008588.pdf.

Michelangelo Temmerman, The Patentability of Animal Genetic Inventions pt. 1, NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper 2006/04, Berne, 2006, 117 p., available at: http://www.nccr-trade.org/ip-9/the-patentability-of-animal-genetic-inventions-2.html.

Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, International Trade Rules and the Agricultural Sector, FAO Legislative Study 98, Rome, 2007, 445 p., available at: ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a1477e/a1477e00.pdf.

Susette Biber-Klemm, Rights to Animal Genetic Resources Report of an International Workshop, presentation held at the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, in Rome, 27 January, 2009.

Milan Ivankovic, Analysis of applicability of Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) principles on Animal Genetic Resources.pdf, Centre for Genetic Resources (CGN), the Netherlands, Wageningen UR, June 2008.

Hiemstra, S.J., A.G. Drucker, M.W. Tvedt, N. Louwaars, J.K. Oldenbroek, K. Awgichew, S. Abegaz Kebede, P.N. Bhat and A. da Silva Mariante, Legal Aspects of Exchange, Use and Conservation of Farm Animal Genetic Resources.pdf, Policy and regulatory options, CGN Report 2006/06, 2006.

Susanne Gura, Livestock genetics companies. Concentration and proprietary strategies of an emerging power in the global food economy, League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development, 2007,
English: http://www.pastoralpeoples.org/gura_livestock_genetics.htm
Español:
http://www.pastoralpeoples.org/gura_livestock_genetics.htm#Empresas
Deutsch:
http://www.pastoralpeoples.org/docs/livestock_genetics_de.pdf

Susanne Gura, Industrial livestock production and its impact on smallholders in developing countries, Report to the League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development, 2008,
http://www.pastoralpeoples.org/docs/gura_ind_livestock_prod.pdf


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