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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Agricultural biodiversity and natural resource management in China

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    Investigating the impacts of climate change on Chinese agriculture

    Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK, 2004
    This paper reports on a regional climate change model developed to predict the impacts of climate change of Chinese agriculture. The model, developed by the UK’s Hadley Centre for Climate Change Predication and Research, took into account climate and soil variables, and the influence of higher atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide on plant metabolism.
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    Availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture

    RUAF Urban Agriculture Magazine, 2003
    The report by the Urban Agriculture Magazine draws on numerous case studies from around the world in discussing issues of availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture.Rapid urbanisation has lead to an increasing demand for urban agricultural land.
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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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    Agricultural biotechnology development, policy and impacts in China

    Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002
    China is developing the largest plant biotechnology capacity outside North America and an impressive list of genetically modified (GM) crops under trial. However, underlying these achievements is a growing concern among policy-makers about the impact of the global biotechnology debate on China's agricultural trade.
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    Biotechnology policy and regulation in China

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    This paper refutes claims that China has in recent years fundamentally altered its stance on GMOs in response to trade, food safety and environmental biosafety concerns.
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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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    Gender and sustainable development in drylands: an analysis of field experiences

    Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003
    With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia.
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    Globalisation and the developing countries: emerging strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation

    International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002
    This on-line book reviews the impact of globalisation on a range of issues, including the effects of changing global rules and regulations on the economies of developing countries in general, and their agricultural sectors in particular. The book divides into four main sections, and includes chapters by various authors.Part I: globalisation from the perspective of the South.
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    General equilibrium modelling of trade and the environment / John Beghin ...[et al.]

    OECD Development Centre, 1996
    The environmental impacts of economic activity have become an increasingly urgent concern in both OECD Member countries, as well as in non-Member countries. Research in this area is still in its infancy, and the data required to buttress analytical studies is still sparse.

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