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A HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF UPOV 1991 BASED ON CASE STUDIES IN KENYA, PERU AND THE PHILIPPINES

@inproceedings{Seeds2014AHR,
  title={A HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF UPOV 1991 BASED ON CASE STUDIES IN KENYA, PERU AND THE PHILIPPINES},
  author={Owning Seeds and A. G���� Food and Thomas Braunschweig and F Meienberg and Carine Pionetti and Sangeeta Shashikant and Caroline Dommen and Karin Hutter},
  year={2014}
}
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