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Hunger, private property rights, and the right to food
Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2002This paper questions whether the right to food as a minimum requirement for social and economic welfare, are fully compatible with freedom rights (on which property rights are based) and their implications on private markets.DocumentTrade in genetically modified food: a survey of empirical studies
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002This 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.DocumentDevelopment Gateway Spotlight on Intellectual Property Rights
Development Gateway, 2003In honor of Intellectual Property Day 2003 this Development Gateway feature considers what lies ahead for developing countries as they implement IPRs, including the potential threat that IPR pose to food security in Africa, issues behind Trade Related Intellectual Property (TRIPs), and the role of NGOs in intellectual property dialogues.The Spotlight features comprehensive information and resoDocumentIPRs, biotechnology and food security
Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002This paper examines the development and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs) at the international and national level and the impacts of IPRs on biotechnology, agricultural practices and food security concerns in the context of globalisation.DocumentModern biotechnology and developing-world agriculture
Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002This essay provides and introduction to agricultural biotechnology in a developing country context. The author looks at issues of food security, consumer acceptance, sectoral change and regulation in the context of advances in genomics and bioinformatics which have led to an increase in the rate and volume of advances in the biotech.DocumentIntellectual property rights in African agriculture: implications for small farmers
GRAIN, 2002This paper looks at the choice facing African policy-makers over which of two opposing models of agricultural R&D to choose to support. One is driven by multinational companies in the North and relies upon private monopolies and genetically modified crops.DocumentSustaining agricultural biodiversity and the integrity and free flow of genetic resources for food for agriculture
Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2002This report claims that agricultural biodiversity is being lost as a result of industrialisation, the globalisation of markets and genetically modified crops.It calls on governments to implement treaties and plans to which they have signed up but are not enforcing.DocumentAgricultural biotechnology, poverty reduction, and food security
Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001This working paper from the Asian Development Bank examines the risks and benefits of biotechnology in relation to human health, the environment, and Agriculture.DocumentIndigenous knowledge and institutions bibliography (Indiana)
Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, 1999DocumentAgricultural and rural development policy in Latin America: new directions and new challenges (de Janvry / Sadoulet / Key)
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 1999Pages