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What is the impact of GMOs on sustainable agriculture in Zambia?
Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection, Zambia, 2002This study argues strongly that the introduction of GM crops to Zambia will have considerable negative effects and negligable benefits for the development of small scale agricutlure on which the country's food security depends.Further the author claims that a concerted campaign of 'propoganda and distortion' has been undertaken by the biotechnology industry to persuade national leaders that GMDocumentReport of the proceedings of the first International Coffee Organisation conference
International Coffee Organization, 2001This document provides a summary of all of the papers at the fist conference of the International coffee organisation (ICO).DocumentAre intellectual property rights stifling agricultural biotechnology in developing countries?
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000This summary of research from IFPRI addresses the issue of balancing corporations increasing desire to seek IP protection for biotech. products against concerns that developing countries will not have access to these new developments.DocumentManaging the invisible hand
WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2002Agriculture and trade are important development tools. However, trade liberalisation does not necessarily fulfil the developmental objectives that should be at the basis of WTO and most of the multilateral agreements.Multilateral negotiations for agriculture are crossing a particularly delicate phase.DocumentCIPR final report: integrating intellectual property rights and development policy
Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002This, the final report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights set up by the UK government in 2001 and consisting of members representing a range of views on all aspects of IPRs.The Commission was asked to consider:how national IPR regimes could best be designed to benefit developing countries within the context of international agreements, including TRIPS;how the internatDocumentGenetically modified crops in Africa: implications for small farmers
GRAIN, 2002This briefing looks at the push to bring genetically modified (GM) crops and technologies to Africa and shows the implications for farmers in Eastern and Southern Africa. What will the introduction of GM crops mean for Africa and its small farmers in particular?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.DocumentThe great EU sugar scam: how Europe's sugar regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world
Oxfam, 2002Under the common agricultural policy (CAP), the EU has emerged as the world's largest exporter of white sugar. Subsidies and tariffs generate vast profits for big sugar processors and large farmers whilst vast surpluses are dumped on world markets.This briefing paper highlights that the EU's sugar regime is in opposition to the theory of comparative advantage.DocumentClimate change and agricultural vulnerability
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2002The report looks at the ecological and economic impacts on agriculture, and particularly the food systems, of the climate change projections of four general circulation models (GCMs), for a range of socio-economic future development pathsIt offers an ecological-economic assessment of the impacts of climate change on agriculture across all countries and regions of the world.