Development vs conservation

The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broa...

The pressures from sectors such as agriculture, mining, or energy on forest biodiversity require cross-sectoral approaches for the conservation and sustainable management of forests. This tool...

This paper addresses the hunting of tropical forest wildlife for food (known as “bushmeat”, “wildmeat” and/or “gamemeat”). It argues that this is an issue of con...

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...

This document presents a hypothetical scheme for predicting which bio-fortified food technologies will enjoy greatest political support or opposition and from which actors on the political lan...

This article examines the political landscape for the introduction of bio-fortified crops in west Africa. Focusing on Burkina Faso and Mali, it analyses the current state of bio-safety legislation ...

This paper assesses the political and socio-economic concerns surrounding GM foods and bio-technology in the Philippines. It particularly focuses on past experiences and looking at what the fu...

This paper assesses the political receptivity to bio-fortification in India, especially when it involves genetic engineering. The paper draws on an understanding of political economy of pro-poor po...

This paper examines the political response to two crops that were nutritionally enhanced through conventional breeding - Quality Protein Maize (QPM) and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes. It also looks...

Over the last 25 years civil disturbances, drought, population increases and global market pressures have all contributed in direct and indirect ways to a modification of Sub saharan African&n...