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    Bt Cotton and small-scale farmers in Makhathini, South Africa: a story of debt, dependency, and dicey economics

    GRAIN, 2004
    This paper discusses the issues surrounding the adoption of Bt cotton in Makhathini, South Africa.
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    Ensuring safe use of biotechnology: key challenges

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2002
    This article identifies short and long-term challenges to biosafety governance in India.
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    Public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology

    Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 2001
    This edition of the Biotechnology and Development Monitor surveys the perceptions and expectations that have developed in the public domain on agricultural gene technology in recent years. Authors from different parts of the world analyse the factors that have influenced public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology as applied to agriculture in their own countries over the last 25 years.
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    Agri-food research: participation and the public good

    Food Ethics Council, 2004
    What should be the role of participatory processes in publicly funded research on food and agriculture? What are the different experiences of participation in science and policy?
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    Agricultural biotechnology, trade and the developing countries

    AgBioForum, 2000
    This paper discusses issues of biotechnology and trade in relation to the economic and social development of developing countries.The paper particularly highlights:developing countries and their low-income people could benefit significantly from the development and use of modern biotechnology in agriculture within a proper biosafety regimeinternational agreements on biosafety, biodi
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    Benefits from Bt Cotton use by smallholder farmers in South Africa

    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 smallholders.The paper highlights the following points:Bt cotton had higher yields than non-Bt varieties and generated greater revenueseed costs for Bt cotton were double those of non-Bt,
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    On science and precaution in the management of technological risk

    European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2001
    This paper discusses the debate over the relative merits of scientific and precautionary approaches to the management of technological risk.The paper highlights the following points:rather than seeing ‘precaution’ as being in tension with ‘science based regulation’, the key elements of a precautionary approach are entirely consistent with sound scientific practice in responding to intra
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    Accessing modern science: policy and institutional options for agricultural biotechnology in developing countries

    Eldis Document Store, 2001
    The paper highlights the complexity of the challenge in developing new forms of collaboration between a variety of actors in the biotechnology area in developing countries, including, national research systems with very diverse capacities in biotechnology, international research centres, local private R&D companies, global life science companies, and advanced research institutes in both industrial
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    Governing the GM crop revolution: policy choices for developing countries

    2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000
    This paper introduces a system for classifying policy choices toward GM crops in the areas of intellectual property rights, food safety, biosafety, trade, and public research investment.
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    Trips with everything? Intellectual property and the farming world

    Food Ethics Council, 2002
    This report briefly outlines some general issues arising in intellectual property (IP), in addition to discussing the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in the World Trade Organization.

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