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    Suicide seeds? biotechnology meets the developmental state

    Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
    This article examines the biotechnology debate in India focusing on transgenic seeds. The author presents the rifts and battles in this sector, highlighting the influence of farmers, journalists, environmental activists, government officials, and the international community.
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    Green revolution 2.0 for Africa? This time the 'silver bullet' has a gun

    Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration formerly RAFI, 2008
    When the G8 meets in June 2008 in Germany they are expected to announce a new research agenda that will again propose scientific solutions to Africa’s social problems. This communiqué outlines what science and technology policies and new initiative are being proposed by major actors.
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    Appropriateness of biotechnology to African agriculture: Striga and maize as paradigms

    Africancrops.net, 2002
    Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, this paper presents both challenges and possible solutions over the weeds Striga hermonthica and S. Asiatic, which destroy maize, millet, sorghum, and upland rice.
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    Governing agricultural biotechnology in Africa: building public confidence and capacity for policy-making

    African Centre for Technology Studies, 2008
    This book provides an overview of the potential benefits of agricultural biotechnology in Africa in the context of continuous poor agricultural production and rising food insecurity. The authors draw on research on biotechnology and biosafety policy in three African countries: Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.
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    GMO governance in Africa

    The Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development, The Open University, 2006
    This paper examines issues of legitimation and harmonisation of biosafety systems in GMO governance in Africa. It draws on case studies from emerging regulatory systems in Ethiopia and South Africa, which offer contrasting examples that evolved under different historical and socio-economic conditions.
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    Agri-biotech in Africa

    SciDev.Net, 2008
    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.Net page on "Agro-biotech in Africa links to a collection of articles and policy briefs exploring related issues.
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    Biosafety scoping study

    Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, 2008
    This scoping study examines the current context for biosafety and how this has been applied in the development of new national biosafety regulatory regimes. The field of biosafety, which arose from the development of modern biotechnology, was initially largely the domain of developed countries.
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    Need for international regulatory harmonisation in trade of genetically modified foods

    Consumer Unity and Trust Society, India, 2008
    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 national and international level.
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    Gene technology for grain legumes: can it contribute to the food challenge in developing countries?

    Elsevier, 2008
    Grain legumes play a crucial role in the sustainability of agricultural systems and in food protein supply in developing countries. Several constraints that limit crop production or quality have been addressed by conventional breeding and enhanced management, but there are situations where the existing germplasm lacks the required traits.
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    Ending African hunger: GM or agro-ecology?

    Open Democracy, 2003
    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 addresses a number of key issues, arguing for the need for great caution before we encourage poor, vulnerable farmers to chance their livelihoods on GM crops.

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