The Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI) has a large collection of documents on Biodiversity, Biotechnology, Farmers’ Rights. (Scroll down to Section B)

Firehock, K. 2003. Protocol and Guidelines for Ethical and Effective Research of Community Based Collaborative Processes. Community Based Collaboratives Research Consortium.This guide deals with ethics and a protocol for researching community-based collaborative processes, including factors to address in developing a research agreement with the group(s) to be researched. How those items are addressed is up to the researcher and the community. This guide provides an ethical standard for information sharing, open processes and information dissemination. The guide draws on ideas from three Consortium workshops. The first section of this guide describes the philosophy of the guide and provides a checklist for developing a research agreement between the researcher and the community. The sections following provide suggestions about how to implement items suggested in the checklist. Those who have a clear understanding of how to achieve items in the research agreement checklist need not read sections II through IV, or they can read only those sections that relate to a point for which greater clarification is needed. This guide is intended to help ensure that productive, ethical and accurate research can occur while providing for research that is useful to both researchers and community groups. The recommendations for conducting ethical and effective research found in this guide are derived from ideas provided at the CBCRC’s October 1999 Tucson workshop and the March 2002 workshop in Albuquerque New Mexico. Ideas found in this guide were further reviewed at the CBCRC conference in Salt Lake City Utah in September 2003 and incorporated into this final version. Appropriate protocols from other related fields such as such as Anthropology or Sociology also were reviewed and incorporated as appropriate.

Markkula Center for Applied EthicsThe Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University is a nationally recognized resource for people and organizations wanting to study and apply an ethical approach to the crucial issues facing our world. The Center supports research, assists faculty in integrating ethics into their courses, and helps businesses, schools, hospitals, and other organizations put ethics to work. Our targeted programs include Biotechnology and Health Care Ethics, Business Ethics, K-12 Character Education, Philosophical Questions in Applied Ethics, Public Policy and Government Ethics, and Emerging Issues in Ethics.

Resources on ethical decision-making. Articles include:A Framework for Ethical Decision MakingApproaching EthicsCalculating ConsequencesCan Ethics Be Taught?Common GoodConscience and AuthorityConsistency and EthicsEthical RelativismEthics and VirtueEveryday EthicsHow Did I Live Today?Justice and FairnessRightsThinking EthicallyWhat is Ethics?Who Counts?

PRGA Program/Participatory Plant Breeding Working Group. April 2000. Guidelines for Developing Participatory Plant Breeding Programs. Working Document No. 1. Version 3. PRGA Program, Cali, Colombia.These are extended guidelines, compiled for all those interested in supporting Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) work, whether from a research or development perspective. These guidelines are not meant to serve as a ''how to'' manual. Rather, the document discusses options-- and shares insights (strengths/weaknesses and trade-offs) of those experimenting with diverse PPB approaches, drawn from consultative meetings, email exchanges and select literature in this newly developing field. By implication, PPB means partnership, or inter-partner collaboration. PPB is more than a documentation of what farmers do alone or what formal breeding institutions do alone --- as interesting as these perspectives may be. These guidelines are organised in two sections: one providing and an overview of the field and the other offering guidelines for developing PPB programs. The latter in turn is divided between formal-led and farmer-led PPB.

Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics EJAIB Vol 5(2) March 1995.Relevant titles in this issue include:- Editorial: Bioethics has no limits? - Darryl Macer - New Initiatives in East Asian Bioethics - Hyakudai Sakamoto - Asian and Western Ethics: Some Remarks on a Productive Tension - Gerhold K. Becker - Suggested Ethical Guidelines for Accessing & Exploring Biodiversity The Pew Conservation Scholars Initiative - Ethical Dilemmas in Conservation of Biodiversity: Towards developing globally acceptable ethical guidelines - Anil K Gupta

Ethics of Research is one of several dossiers featured on the Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net).The overall aim of SciDev.Net is to enhance the provision of reliable and authoritative information on science- and technology-related issues that impact on the economic and social development of developing countries.

Braun, A. 2004. Ethics and Professional standards. Paideia Resources.Over the last decade many practitioners have realized that Participatory Research and Development can be done well or not. The quality of participatory research and development can affect the well-being of people and the environment and poor quality initiatives can have serious social, economic and ecological consequences. Furthermore, a high quality participatory process is not sufficient to guarantee success. The wrong approach or design –however well implemented – is unlikely to lead to the desired outcomes. The question of ethics, professional standards and accountability is one of several key elements crucial to improving the design and quality of participatory research and development.Ethical frameworks and professional standards and accountability mechanisms for these are well developed in the medical field and in academia among researchers who study human subjects, however has been relatively little discourse about these in the arena of participatory research and development. Nevertheless, some organizations have explored these issues and examples of key elements from a variety of frameworks are summarized.

Codes of conduct/practice/ethics from around the world: This list started as a collection of codes of conduct, codes of practice, or codes of ethics from around the world, as part of an IFIP study of codes led by Dr. Jacques Berleur, Univ. Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium. Since then codes from many different sources have been added, and continue to be added. If you do locate a code, please send e-mail to J.A.N. Lee at Virginia Tech, so that we can add it to this page.

The CITI Human Subjects Research Educational Program consists of 13 modules each focused on a different aspect of bio-ethics and human subjects research. Each Part, developed by experts in the Institutional Review Board community has an associated quiz. The software maintained at the University of Miami, compiles the quiz scores. The institution specific training data is forward to the respective training coordinators at the participating institutions on a regular basis. Your institution can decide what score is sufficient to pass the course. The individual institution also distributes certificates or letters of completion based on the predetermined level of achievement. The CITI office at the University of Miami retains all records in strict confidence.

Simpson, B. 2000. Best Practices and Ethical Standards in Participatory Plant Breeding: Background synthesis of relevant existing codes. Prepared for the Systemwide Program on Participatory Research (PRGA).Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB), as with other forms of participatory practice, is a composite of interrelated and, at their best, reinforcing elements, each with their own concerns. Among these, much attention has recently been focused on the issues of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and certain technical aspects. In the interest of improving the state-of-the-art in PPB, however, neither IPR nor any other single issue, by themselves, capture the full breadth and depth of PPB practice. To help explore this broader range of issues, a working group was established from among the PPB List members to identify a set of PPB ‘Best Practices,’ focusing particularly on the ethics of establishing honest, transparent, relationships between researchers, farmers and farming communities. To support this group, and to complement other papers under preparation for the PRGA on technical and legal dimensions of PPB, this paper was commissioned with the objectives of:# Searching out background documents on ‘best practice codes,’ or ‘ethical codes,’ of a) organizations with mandates similar to that of the PRGA and b) organizations that specifically work with farming communities and plant material.# Writing a short synthetic document signaling a) trends in ‘best practice’ elements which appear across documents (standard, baseline practices), and b) trends and unique best practice elements which may have specific relevance to "Participatory Plant Breeding".