Introduction / Michael Halewood and Isabel Lapeña -- Technical challenges in identifying farmer varieties / Jeremy Cherfas -- The farmers' role in creating new genetic diversity / Carlo Fadda -- Leveraging the successful participatory improvement of pokhareli jethobudhu for national policy development in Nepal / Pratap Kumar Shrestha -- Promoting policy support for the enhancement and marketing of farmers' varieties in Vietnam / Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hue and Michael Halewood -- Participatory barley breeding in Syria : policy bottlenecks and responses / Salvatore Ceccarelli -- Historical context : evolving international cooperation on crop genetic resources / Regine Anderson -- Farmers' rights : evolution of the international policy debate and national implementation / Regine Andersen -- Sui generis ipr protections for farmers' varieties / Carlos Correa -- Variety registration : the evolution of registration systems with a special emphasis on agro-biodiversity conservation / Niels Louwaars and François Burgaud -- Defensive protection of farmers' varieties / Isabel López Noriega -- Institutional capacity and implementation issues in farmers' rights / C.S. Srinivasan -- Commentary on the Indian protection of plant varieties and farmers' rights act 2001 / Dwijen Rangnekar -- Commentary on the Malaysian protection of new varieties act 2004 / Lim Eng Siang -- Commentary on Egypt's law on the protection of intellectual property rights / Mohammed Eid Megeed -- Commentary on Thailand's plant varieties protection act / Gabrielle Gagne and Chutima Ratanasatien -- Commentary on the Zambian plant breeders' rights act / Godfrey Mwila -- Commentary on the Nepalese seeds act and the seeds regulation / Pratap Shrestha -- Variety regulation in the United State of America / Richard J. Blaustein -- Commentary on law no. 10711 regulating the Brazilian national seed and seedling system / Juliana Santilli -- Commentary on variety registration regulation in Italy / Alejandro Mejias, Enrico Bertacchini and Riccardo Bocci -- Commentary on the Zambian plant variety and seeds act, 1998 / Godfrey Mwila -- Commentary on the regulation on management of farm households' plant varieties in Vietnam / Nguyen Van Dinh and Nguyen Ngoc Kinh -- Commentary on the registry of native crops in Peru: law 28477 and the registry of native potatoes / Manuel Ruiz Muller -- Analysis of the draft proposal for the establishment of a special system for the registry and commercialization of native seeds (farmers' seeds) in Costa Rica / Jorge Cabrera Medaglia -- Registration of traditional varieties under Benin seed regulation / Raymond Vodouhe with Michael Halewood.
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