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Updates on Plant Variety Protection #41

09 July 2020 by François Meienberg, APBREBES Coordinator

Issue #41

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 -- ‘Keeping seeds in our hands’: the rise of seedactivism” -- 348 organizationsfrom 46 countriescelebrate international seed day

Updates on Plant Variety Protection #40

11 May 2020 by François Meienberg, APBREBES Coordinator

Issue #40

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 farmers’ rights -- Intelectuall property rights and agricultural development: Evidence from a worldwide index of IPRs in agriculture (1961-2018)

Updates on Plant Variety Protection #39

06 March 2020 by François Meienberg, APBREBES Coordinator

Issue #39

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-innovators’ 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)