Globalization has reshaped the nature of regulation within developed nations. This book draws upon the expertise of some of the most prominent names in rural sociology, geography, and anthropology to show how globalization has opened up a new regulatory politics in which increasingly, non-political sites, spaces, and agents play an increasingly influential role in shaping agricultural production and consumption

Three leading scholars in the field explain why place and provenance are assuming more importance in the food chain to producers, consumers, and regulators. They examine how these concerns influence debates on the future of food and farming, exploring the implications for three very different regions: California, Tuscany, and Wales.

Material transfer agreements in genetic resources exchange : the case of the International Agricultural Research Centres / John H. Barton and Wolfgang E. Siebeck

The International Breeder's Rights System and Crop Plant Innovation John H. Barton 1 1 Professor of law at Stanford Law School, Stanford, California 94305 Legal arrangements governing a plant breeder's intellectual property rights to his inventions are likely to affect the future of crop research. Such systems, although controversial, are probably currently desirable for the developed world. The new genetic technologies may change this judgment, and certainly require redefinition of the lines between plant patents and regular patents. Several safeguards, present in the United States breeder's rights law, should be applied more broadly. A new safeguard-of ensuring that material be entered into germplasm banks-should be applied everywhere. For the developing world, the desirability of a plant patent system is much less clear; new agreements may be desirable to ensure the free flow and collection of germplasm.

Welcome to the STEPS centre website Who benefits from GM crops? Will we have enough water to last this century? What are the implications of the HIV/Aids pandemic? In an era of unprecedented social, environmental and technological change STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) is linking environmental sustainability and technology with poverty reduction and social justice. We are a global research and policy engagement centre, funded by the ESRC, bringing together development studies with science and technology studies.

Innovation and globalization are changing the nature of economic life. This book argues that the transfer and use of knowledge requires the development of appropriate institutional infrastructures. The opportunities offered by globalization will only be fully realized by actively pursuing policies to enhance the absorption and development of knowledge. The book is relevant for courses in management and business, economics, geography, international political economy, and innovation and technology studies. It will be of interest to all concerned with public policy toward the economy

The slowdown of growth in Western industrialized nations in the last twenty years, along with the rise of Japan as a major economic and technological power (and enhanced technical sophistication of Taiwan, Korea, and other NICs) has led to what the authors believe to be a "techno-nationalism." This combines a strong belief that technological capabilities of a nation's firms are a key source of their competitive process, with a belief that these capabilities are in a sense national, and can be built by national action. This book is about these national systems of technical innovation. The heart of the work contains studies of seventeen countries--from large market-oriented industrialized ones to several smaller high income ones, including a number of newly industrialized states as well. Clearly written, this work highlights institutions and mechanisms which support technical innovation, showing similarities, differences, and their sources across nations, making this work accessible to students as well as the scholars of innovation.

Learning Resources This page contains learning resources for the e-agriculture.org community.  These are courses and modules focused on e-Agriculture as a field or designed to teach participants skills relevant to areas of e-Agriculture.  If you come across other such resources, we hope you will contribute them. Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) The Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) is a partnership-based e-Learning initiative to train individuals and support institutions and networks world-wide in the effective management of agricultural information. IMARK consists of a suite of distance learning resources, tools and communities on information management. IMARK learning materials are being developed as a series of modules available online and on CD-ROM. The modules are being developed using the latest methods in e-learning, providing an interactive environment for self-paced learning. List of IMARK Modules ItrainOnline Multimedia Training Kit  The ItrainOnline MMTK is a growing collection of "workshop kits" for face-to-face training. The materials use a standard set of templates, and offer building blocks for trainers to build their own courses. Materials are available in English, French, Arabic, and Russian, and cover technical skills, content development skills, developing thematic content, organizational development and planning, and ICT policy, advocacy, and the digital divide. CGIAR Online Learning Resources Center From this page you can access a repository of CGIAR Centers' learning objects and other training resources, as well as Web-based training courses. You can access these sites anonymously to search and retrieve information and resources as well as enrol in courses. If you wish to contribute resources or need further information please contact the Learning Resources Team. Thank you for visiting. The Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) This is a partnership of over 120 learning centres (GDLN Affiliates) in nearly

FAO provides free access to statistics treasure trove 12-Jul-10 World's largest database of food, hunger and agricultural information now fully accessible online  Free access to FAO database contributes to sustainable development   9 July 2010, Rome - FAO is granting free and open access to its central data repository, FAOSTAT, the world's largest and most comprehensive statistical database on food, agriculture, and hunger, the UN agency announced today.  Previously, it was possible to download without charge a limited amount of information from FAOSTAT - which contains over one million data points covering 210 countries and territories -- but access to larger batches of statistics required a paid annual subscription.  The power of numbers  "We are now providing totally free access to this immense pool of data," said Hafez Ghanem, FAO Assistant Director General for Economic and Social Development. "This information is an important tool in the fight to alleviate poverty, promote sustainable development and eliminate hunger. We're particularly keen on making sure that economists, planners, and policy-makers in the developing world, where that tool is needed most, can get at it and put it to good use."  Ghanem also noted that the move forms part of an ongoing FAO effort to provide easier and more direct access to its vast information assets, an initiative that came out of an independent external evaluation and strategic planning process initiated by FAO's Members in 2008.  "FAOSTAT is a powerful tool that can be used not just to see where hunger occurs, but to drill down and better understand why hunger occurs -- and what might be done to combat it," added Pietro Gennari, FAO Statistics Division Director. "It's especially designed to support monitoring, analysis and informed, evidence-based policy-making specifically related to rural and agricultural development and hunger reduction, the only tool of its kind."  In addition to aiding development

Intellectual Property Rights And Concentration In Agricultural Biotechnology William Lesser Cornell University AgBioForum Fall98 v.1, n.2 The relationships between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and structural change are examined in this paper. Intellectual property rights are a complex, multifaceted area and one in which corporate strategies are poorly understood. Nevertheless, it is argued here that IPRs can affect firm entry, can make vertical integration in downstream industries more or less necessary, and can create financial incentives for downstream mergers and acquisitions. Hence, IPRs can have significant structural impacts. Key words: intellectual property rights; agrobiotechnology; industry structure; research and development (R&D) The later 1990s have been a tumultuous time for merger and acquisition activity among firms involved in agricultural biotechnology. By the end of the third quarter of 1998, Monsanto alone had been involved in 18 acquisitions and had itself agreed and then reneged on a merger with American Home Products. In addition, Monsanto completed overseas acquisitions worth a total of $7.3 billion over two years. Novartis was formed by the merging of Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy, while DuPont chose to enter the market through joint ventures; a total of 20 joint ventures valued at over $5 billion (Moore, 1998). These mergers have contributed greatly to a restructuring of the seed industry. Most notably, Monsanto controlled up to 40 percent of seed for the 1998 United States (U.S.) soybean crop and, if approved, full acquisition of Delta & Pine Land will give Monsanto ownership of at least 80 percent of the U.S. cotton seed industry (Kilman & Warren, 1998). This is not the only incidence of major acquisition activity, a previous one occurred about 20 years earlier. Butler and Marion (1985) list 27 mergers during the period 1978-80. The 1980 date is pivotal as it marks some strengthening amendments to the United States Plant Variety Prot

Avaliação de Impactos Econômicos, Sociais, Ambientais e de Capacitação 445.85 kb Revisão da literatura sobre métodos para avaliação de impactos da pesquisa dimensões econômica, social, ambiental e de capacitação. Texto produzido para o projeto enviado ao edital de Políticas Públicas da FAPESP. Organização da Inovação e Cooperação Regional 432.59 kb Sergio Salles-Filho, Débora Mello e Mauro Zackiewicz. Proyeto Global. Procisur/BID. Serie Documentos Nº 20. Montevideo, Uruguay, 2001. Reorganização institucional como processo de modernização das relações entre os agentes da inovação. 148.32 kb S. Salles-Filho; D. Mello; M. B. Bonacelli.Textos para Discussão n. 29, 1999, DPCT/Unicamp. Reforma Institucional do Instituto Agronômico. 349.25 kb S. Salles-Filho e O. Tisselli-Filho. Textos para Discussão, No 22, DPCT/IG/UNICAMP, 1998, 38 páginas.

Teses e Dissertações A Co-Evolução Tecnológica e Institucional na Organização da Pesquisa Agrícola no Brasil e na Argentina 1,090.04 kb Marcos Paulo Fuck Tese de Doutorado no Departamento de Política Científica e Tecnológica - DPCT/UNICAMP, em 02/06/09 Organização da P&D agrícola no Brasil: evolução, experiências e perspectivas de um sistema de inovação para a agricultura 1,451.99 kb Paule Jeanne V. Mendes Tese de Doutorado no Departamento de Política Científica e Tecnológica - DPCT/UNICAMP, em 30/03/09 Planejamento e Gestão da Pesquisa e da Inovação: conceitos e instrumentos 1,283.75 kb Adriana Bin Tese de Doutorado no Departamento de Política Científica e Tecnológica - DPCT/UNICAMP, em 07/08/08 Proteção de ativos na indústria de software: estratégias e tendências de Propriedade Intelectual 1,717.15 kb Ana Maria Carneiro Tese de Doutorado no Departamento de Política Científica e Tecnológica - DPCT/UNICAMP, em 28/08/07 Trajetórias e Desafios da Avaliação em Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação 1,540.13 kb Mauro Zackiewicz Tese de Doutorado no Departamento de Política Científica e Tecnológica - DPCT/UNICAMP, em 28/02/05 Financiamento e Incentivos ao Sistema de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação: Quadro Atual e Perspectivas 949.75 kb Solange Maria Corder Tese de Doutorado no Departamento de Política Científica e Tecnológica - DPCT/UNICAMP, em agosto de 2004 Agricultura e Meio Ambiente: contexto e iniciativas da pesquisa pública 1,081.52 kb Adriana Bin Dissertação de Mestrado no Departamento de Política Científica e Tecnológica - DPCT/UNICAMP, em 11/03/04 Propriedade Intelectual na Agricultura 651.43 kb Sérgio Medeiros Paulino de Carvalho Tese de Doutorado defendida no Departamento de Política Científica e Tecnológica - DPCT/UNICAMP, em 22/12/03 Cadeias inovativas, redes de inovação e a dinâmica tecnológica da citricultura no Estado de São Paulo 459.39 kb Marcelo Gon�

O Grupo de Estudos sobre Organização da Pesquisa e da Inovação foi fundado em 1995 por professores, alunos e colaboradores do Departamento de Política Científica e Tecnológica (DPCT) do Instituto de Geociências da Unicamp. A competência central do GEOPI está nos campos do planejamento e da gestão de ciência, tecnologia e inovação (CT&I). O trabalho do GEOPI é orientado por uma interpretação dinâmica do processo de inovação, seja a inovação realizada no âmbito de uma organização (pública ou privada), seja em âmbito de um país, de uma região, de um setor ou de uma área do conhecimento. O GEOPI trabalha com conceitos e métodos derivados de disciplinas como economia da tecnologia e da inovação, economia das instituições, sociologia da inovação, teoria das organizações, gestão estratégica, dentre outras abordagens complementares. NOSSAS LINHAS DE ATUAÇÃO - Planejamento e Gestão de CT&I identificação e análise das características institucionais, organizacionais, gerenciais e relacionais que interferem na gestão das atividades de ciência e tecnologia, bem como do processo de inovação, seja este de natureza tecnológica ou não tecnológica. Concepção, reorganização e planejamento de centros e organizações públicas e privadas envolvidas com atividades de CT&I. - Prospecção em CT&I desenvolvimento e aplicação de métodos e ferramentas de prospecção para auxiliar processos de planejamento e gestão a partir da compreensão do contexto institucional e organizacional e da construção de relações de compromisso entre os diferentes atores envolvidos em um sistema de inovação. Os estudos incluem ainda a prospecção para tecnologias emergentes e a identificação de ciclos tecnológicos. - Avaliação em CT&I desenvolvimento e aplicação de métodos de avaliação de resultados e de impactos de projetos, programas, organizações e instituições, especialmente em múltiplas dimensões (econômic