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Searching with a thematic focus on Technology and innovation in agriculture, Agriculture and food, Biotechnology and GMOs, Trade Policy, Intellectual Property Rights

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  GM cotton set to invade West Africa: time to act!

  GRAIN, 2004

  This study seeks to provide farmers with a critical and accessible analysis of Bt cotton, arguing that they are the ones that will be introducing any GM crops to the fields and should therefore be at the centre of decision making on the issue. It finds that Bt cotton will not significantly reduce pesticide use nor provide any economic advantages to farmers within West Africa.
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  Food security and intellectual property rights in developing countries

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003

  This paper examines the implications of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on food security and the agricultural sector.
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  Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: development of IPR regime in India with reference to agricultural biotechnology

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper looks at debates over the evolution of the IPRs regime in India as it relates to agricultural biotechnology.
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  Intellectual property rights, biotechnology and food security

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the relationship between food security, agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs), particularly for developing countries and poorer groups within those countries.Main findings include:for low income developing countries, the costs of strengthening IPRs may well outweigh the gainspro-IPR industry representatives and trade officials, with p
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  The biotech developmental state?: investigating the Chinese gene revolution

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper looks at how and why China has pursued research on agricultural biotechnology within the public sector, in contrast with other parts of the world where the private sector has been dominant. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of science-policy networks in promoting a biotechnology discourse.
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  Performance of BT cotton in India: data from the first commercial crop

  Gene Campaign, 2003

  This paper presents data on the field study of the first genetically modified crop to be cultivated in India.
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  Engineering nutrition: GM crops for global justice?

  Food Ethics Council, 2003

  This report challenges the dominant view of the scientific establishment that the future of agriculture lies with genetic modification technologies.
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  Biotechnology and food security in Africa: some policy and institutional considerations

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2002

  This paper asks how biotechnology can affect food security in Africa. It advices caution in either promoting or opposing biotechnology for its own sake.The paper argues that:no technology by and of itself has internal momentum to create food security for any society of region. It is how the technology is applied and moulded by society that determines its usefulness.
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  Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: the implications for food security in Kenya

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003

  This paper argues that for modern biotechnology research to have long term and wider positive social impact in Kenya, changes in policies and institutions must be implemented to ensure that it benefits the smallholder farmers who make up the majority of Kenya’s population.Critical issues examined include:biosafety food safetyloss of biodiversity IPRsThe report makes
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  Trade in genetically modified food: a survey of empirical studies

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper analyses the current and potential economic impact of GM commodities on world trade.It concludes that: in general, adopters of the more productive GM technologies gain, while non-adopters or GM-critical regions either do not gain at all or only gain some (through changes in world prices), depending on how strongly they segment their markets.

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