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The Trade & Environment Database
(TED) is a collection of categorical case
studies that began with a focus on solely environmental issues,
but did not include the economic consequences of other social policy
choices, such as culture, rights, or other issues. TED cases include 28 categories that include both coded and reporting,
organized into 6 clusters of information with extensive search and
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Featured Case Studies
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The Neem
Tree
Number 665, January 2002
by Sara Hasan
The United States and India are currently
involved in a biopiracy dispute over the rights to a tree
indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, the neem tree. While
the neem tree has been used in India for over 2000 years for
various purposes such as pesticides, spermicides and
toothbrushes, a US company has been suing Indian companies
for producing the emulsion because they have a patent on the
process. The dispute is over the rights of companies to
conduct research and development by using patents against
the interest of the people who live at the source of the
resource. To what extent can multinational companies claim
and patent resources from the develping countries, like
India? The movement around the issue of the neem tree and
trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights
(TRIPS) represents a challenge to the developing
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Parmigiano-Reggiano:
The "King" of Cheeses
Number 677, 2003
by Elizabeth
Jahncke
For many Americans, Parmesan cheese, as we know it, comes
in a green, cylindrical can. Manufactured by large cheese
companies, most American Parmesan cheese is mass-produced
and sold in grocery stores everywhere at a competitive, but
low price, ensuring that spaghetti and meatballs throughout
the United States are garnished with its unmistakably unique
flavor. However, for many Italians, Parmesan cheese is not
mass-produced by large, Italian cheese companies. Ask an
Italian how Parmesan cheese is made and they may answer, Non si fabrica, Si fa - It is not made, but rather,
produced.
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