Articles and reports about genetic modification (GM food and agriculture), biotechnology, global trade agreements and intellectual rights for plant breeders; work with FIS/ASSINSEL: papers, conferences, committee papers and correspondence; diaries (1985-2000); Biotechnology and GM books.
Publications, reports and articles in bundles with additional papers, correspondence etc. Arranged by date.
S McGuire 'Privatisation of Agricultural Research: A Case Study of Winter Wheat Breeding in the United Kingdom (1996), MSc Dissertation (UEA) x2; 'The Conservation and Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture', Basel Workshop, Executive Summary and Action Plan, 15 Feb 1996.
Report by the Royal Society working group on the use of genetically modified animals; Plant Intellectual Property Report, University of Sheffield: a summary of responses to first questionnaire country by country; M Smale, K Day-Rubenstein, A Zohrabian and T Hodgkin,'EPTD Discussion Paper No. 82 'The Demand for Crop Genetic Resources: International Use of the U.S National Plant Germplasm System'; Draft paper 'Sustainable Food security For All by 2020', International Food Policy Research Institute, USA.
FIS/ASSINSEL conferences, correspondence, meetings and reports
ASSINSEL Conference, Rome, 23-25 May and Paris, 1 Dec, 2000: minutes of the Sustainable Agriculture Committee; Sage's notes on Paris conference; correspondence; paper and notes on 'Durum Wheat in Italy' by Dr Enzo De Ambrogio; Rome 2000 FIS/ASSINSEL documents.
Correspondence to the Executive Committee of ASSINSEL; establishment of the Biodiversity Committee; calender of events; paper on the historical background and relations between FIS and ASSINSEL; report of the Executive Committee Meeting, Stockholm, May 30; Committee agenda, Amsterdam, Oct 8; papers, agenda and minutes of the meeting of the ASSINSEL Committee on Biodiversity held in Brussels, Nov 26 1997, G Sage's handwritten list of meetings attended and notes.
GRAIN (Genetic Resources Action International) email subscription newsletters: articles from various sources on gene science, particularly problems such as 'biopiracy, political developments and new laws affecting gene science and plant varieties: e.g. TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights); Lome's biopiracy clause; India's 'Plant Variety and Farmers' Rights Bill' 1999; Biopatenting (CIDSE press release); 'Unregulated Medicinal Plant Exports' by A Lama; plants protected by patents in USA; variety rights debates in Asia by IRRI (International Rice Research Institute); 'Beyond the Genome' by Tom Wilkie (Wellcome Trust) GRAIN publications: 'Global Trade and Biodiversity in Conflict', Issue nos.1-3, 1998: 'TRIPS versus CBD', 'Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity Myths' and 'Ten reasons not to join UPOV'.
GM Scientific Press Reports: Scientific American, Nature, Agra, Channel 4 and New Scientist.