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| Cover photographs. Top: Potato harvest in the Andes, International Potato Center (CIP), Peru. Bottom: Biotechnology lab, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico. Photographs by permission of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Secretariat |
| Uma Lele is an adviser in the Rural Development Department of the World Bank. William Lesser is a professor in the Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics Department, Cornell University. Gesa Horstkotte-Wesseler is a junior professional officer in the Rural Development Department of the World Bank. |
| Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data |
Intellectual property rights in agriculture: the World Bank's
role in assisting borrower and member countries /
Uma Lele, William Lesser, and Gesa Horstkotte-Wesseler, editors.
p. cm. (Environmentally and socially sustainable
development. Rural Development)
ISBN 0-8213-4496-X
1. Intellectual propertyDeveloping countries. 2. Agriculture
ResearchLaw and legislationDeveloping countries. 3. World
Bank. I. Lele, Uma J. II. Lesse, William. III. Horstkotte
Wesseler, Gesa, 1965- . IV. Series: Environmentally and socially
sustainable development series. Rural development.
K1401.1 567 1999
630'.72dc21 99-15437
CIP |
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