Technology and innovation
- Where is the Farmer First agenda twenty years on?
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Over the past two decades, the Farmer First perspective has provided a powerful critique of the conventional organisation and application of agricultural R&D, with its emphasis on transfer of technology models. On 12-14 Dec, twenty years after the original Farmer First workshop, IDS hosted a 3-day workshop ‘Farmers First Revisited’, to evaluate how these approaches have panned out, and to identify future priorities and challenges. This dedicated website provides an overview of the workshop and links to 69 papers contributed by participants from around the world.
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Legitimation and harmonisation of GMO governance in Africa
- ( S. Ayele / The Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development, The Open University , 2006)
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This paper examines issues of legitimation and harmonisation of biosafety systems in GMO governance in Africa. It draws on case studies from emerging regulatory...
- Will a second Green Revolution really solve Africa's problems?
- ( E. Holt-Gimenez;M. Altieri;P. Rosset / Institute for Food and Development Policy , 2008)
- This article analyses the effectiveness of the investment that the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced - a joint ‘Alliance for a Green Revolutio...
- Agricultural biotechnology in Africa: selected resources from SciDev.Net
- ( SciDev.Net , 2008)
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Sub-Saharan Africa is a hotbed of activity in agricultural biotechnology — from research initiatives for tackling local pests to commercial growing of genetically modified crops. This SciDev....
- Regulating the trade of genetically modified foods
- ( P. S. Mehta / Consumer Unity and Trust Society, India , 2008)
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The need for international regulatory harmonisation for balancing global trade in biosafety and biotechnology products has been the focus of attention among various stakeholders both at the nationa...
- Is biotechnology an effective and safe way to address global hunger?
- ( L. Orton / Open Democracy , 2003)
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This article counters the claim that biotechnology can address hunger in ways that are effective,
affordable and safe. Taking an article by Gordon Conway as a starting point, the author ... - GM is not the answer to global hunger
- ( UK Food Group , 2003)
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This short two page briefing argues that in most developing countries, whose small-scale, labour-intensive agriculture is dramatically different from the UK, GM crops are at best irrelevant and at ...
Challenging the official rhetoric: the Brazilian grassroots critique of agrofuels
- ( C. Moreno;A. Mittal / The Oakland Institute , 2008)
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Brazil is the global leader in ethanol exports, providing 70% of the world's supply in 2006. While official accounts of the Brazilian government’s experiment with biofuels laud it as a global...
Have mobile phones improved animal health services in Kenya?
- ( J. Kithuka;J. Mutemi;A.,H. Mohamed / Farm Africa , 2007)
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This paper explores the introduction of mobile phones and community pay phones within FARM-Africa's Kenya Dairy Goat and Capacity Building Project (KDGCBP), implimented in the districts of Mwingi a...
- Can Bt cotton offer a solution to cotton crop problems in India?
- ( V., P. Gandhi;N., V. Namboodiri / Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad , 2006)
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This paper presents preliminary results from a study of the economics and adoption of Bt cotton in India. Biotech crops, which made their appearance in the world about a decade ago, have gained sub...
GM crops and the environment: the need for a science-based debate
- ( W.J. van der Walt / Science in Africa , 2004)
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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...
