This chapter focuses on the establishment of an intellectual property rights (IPR) infrastructure in Egypt, through the support of the USAID-funded Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project. The IPR infrastructure was designed particularly for agricultural biotechnology to enable the development...

This revised and updated book (the first edition was printed in 1998), presents information on intellectual property law in a simplified form. New chapters have been added, which cover plant variety protection and farmers' rights. The latter chapter provides a background to the impact of the...

This chapter presents recommendations to ensure success in the following aspects of integrated pest management: education, training and capacity building; policy; basic and applied research; and communication, information, linkages and networking.

This chapter describes CABI's initiatives in promoting integrated pest (insects, pathogens, weeds and nematodes) management, briefly covering contributions in terms of pest diagnosis and advisory services, rational pesticide use, biological control and biological pesticides, soil and seed health,...

This chapter provides an overview of plant protection and integrated pest management (IPM) programmes implemented by CATIE (Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Centre; a non-profit international association that promotes the development, conservation and sustainable use of natural...

This chapter on IPMEurope covers the following: integrated pest management (IPM)-related activities (including those related to dealing with challenges in IPM faced by developing countries, mobilizing the European science and technology community with developing country partners, and using research ...

This chapter on CIRAD (Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche pour le Développement) in France covers the following: scientific coordination; working partnerships; case studies of integrated pest management (cultural and biological control, host plant resistance, chemical attractants and ...

This chapter on the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology provides an overview of the following: organizational structure and operation, impact of achievements in ecological pest control, role in training and capacity building related to integrated pest and vector management, and...

This chapter describes operations of the World Bank that promote integrated pest management (IPM), which include the co-sponsorship of an IPM facility that provides access to specialist expertise and to a network of relevant expert institutions, and implementation of a pest management policy that...

This chapter describes the following aspects of the System-Wide Programme on Integrated Pest (arthropods, vertebrates, pathogens, weeds and other organisms detrimental to agricultural production) Management (SP-IPM), a global network in IPM established by the CGIAR in 1995, with Africa, Asia and...