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"Global Dialogues on Intellectual Property: Food Security, Plant Genetic Resources, and Intellectual Property" was held in Bellagio, Italy on 9-11 September 2003.  Meeting participants drafted a report with recommendations for specific actions and interventions that would lead to better genetic resources policies and laws at the national level.  

Click here to read the report from Bellagio

"A Working Meeting to Strengthen Capacity for Developing Policies Affecting Genetic Resources: was held in Frascati, Italy on 5-7 September 2003.  This meeting brought together 44 experts from 15 countries around the world.  The discussions, ideas, suggestions, and recommendations which arose from this meeting were used to draft the Bellagio Report (see above). 

Click here for the Working Meeting's participant List

Click here to read the report from the Working Meeting 

Presentations

Michael Halewood, Jaime Estrella, IPGRI 
Susan Bass, ELI
Camilla Knox-Peebles, Department for International Development (DFID)
Nyasha Chiskakwe, IUCN Regional Office for Southern Africa
Kolawole Adeniji, African Union
David Duthie, United Nations Environment Programme/Global Environment Facility
John Mulumba Wasswa, National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO)
Godfrey Mwila, Southern African Development Community
Kent Nnadozie, Southern Environmental and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (SEAPRI)
Manuel Ruiz, Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambient (SPDA) (Ruiz Presentation 2)
Kent Nnadozie and Robert Lettington, SEAPRI
Lovemore Simwanda, Environmental Conservation Association of Zambia (ECAZ) 
Judith Lungu, University of Zambia
MP Upadhyay, Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC)
Ossama El-Tayeb, Microbial Biotechnology Center
Eid Megeed, Technology Management and Commercialization Office
Ismail Abdel Galil Hussein, Desert Research Center