Patent buyouts, prizes and proportional prizes may be other means of doing so (Elliot, 2010; Bhagwati, 2005). See http://www.gavialliance.org/media_ centre/press_releases/2010_03_23_amc_commitment.php (accessed 6 February 2011). In the current context, a larger number of actors (civil society organizations, the private sector, farmers and multilateral organizations) contribute towards this end.