GM crops in South Africa
Recommended reading
- Benefits from Bt Cotton use by smallholder farmers in South Africa
- S Morse; R Bennett; Y. Ismael / AgBioForum, 2001
- This paper describes the results of research conducted in the Makhathini region, Kwazulu Natal, Republic of South Africa, designed to explore the economic benefits of the adoption of Bt cotton for sma...
- Three seasons of subsistence insect-resistant maize in South Africa: have smallholders benefited?
- M. Gouse;C. Pray;D. Schimmelpfennig / AgBioForum, 2006
- This paper examines whether smallholder farmers who adopted insect-resistant (Bt) varieties of white maize have benefited from planting Bt over the last three seasons. Commercial farmer...
- Can the poor help GM crops? Technology, representation and cotton in the Makhathini Flats, South Africa
- H. Witt;R. Patel;M. Schnurr / GRAIN, 2006
- The adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton in South Africa’s Makhathini Flats in 1998 was heralded as a case in which agricultural biotechnology could benefit smallholder farmers, and a...
- Bt cotton in KwaZulu Natal: technological triumph but institutional failure
- M. Gouse;J. Kirsten;B. Shankar / GRAIN, 2008
- This paper explores the technological triumphs and institutional failures of Bt cotton amongst small-scale farmers in the Makhatini Flats of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. In the1998/1999...
- Bt cotton in South Africa: the case of the Makhathini farmers
- E. Pschorn-Strauss / Biowatch South Africa, 2005
- This article summarises the results of five years of research undertaken by Biowatch South Africa on the socio-economic impact of Bt cotton on the small-scale farmers of the Makhathini Flats, in no...
- Bt maize for small scale farmers: a case study
- D.P. Keetch;J.W. Webster;A. Ngqaka / 2005
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The role of biotechnology in small-holder agricultural systems has been the subject of much debate in South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region as a whole.
- Ecological impact of GM crops: time for a sober scientific assessment
- W.J. van der Walt / Science in Africa, 2004
- Assessing the environmental impact of genetically modified (GM) crops requires more than just a tunnel vision approach which looks at hypothetical risks, this article argues. Instead, it suggest th...
