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  Food and nutrition biotechnology: achievements, prospects, and perceptions

  Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2005

  This paper from the United Nations University provides an encompassing perspective on the state of play with regard to food and nutrition biotechnology.
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  Biotechnology, agriculture, and food security in southern Africa

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This book discusses the outcomes of a multistakeholder initiative on issues of biotechnology resulting from the 2002–2003 southern African food crisis, when a number of countries rejected food aid in the form of genetically modified grain.The initiative aimed at raising awareness, promoting dialogue, and catalysing consensus-building mechanisms to improve the institutions and policies governing
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  Annotated bibliography on the economic and socio-economic impact of agricultural biotechnology in developing countries

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This 112-page document brings together a wide range of assessments of the economic and socio-economic impact of agricultural biotechnology (both GMO and non-GMO) in developing countries.
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  Brazilian agrifood system and modern biotechnology: opportunities and perspectives

  Science and Technology Journal, 2005

  [The full document is only available in Portuguese]This paper argues that whilst modern biotechnology potentially appears as a technological option with great potential for the agrifood Brazilian system, it is facing serious challenges.
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  Golden rice solution to vitamin A deficiency: what lies beneath

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  This article attempts to find out about the Vitamin A Deficiency, how it affects the human body, the treatment available, the Golden Rice alternative, the risks and doubts attached, nutritional, operational and economic analysis of golden rice, how the cultivation of Genetically Engineered crops going to affect the agriculture sector in developing countries and who is going to benefit from its far
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  Tackling GMO contamination: making segregation and identity preservation a reality

  Friends of the Earth International, 2005

  This report examines several cases of GMO contamination and describes the current experience with segregation and Identity Preserved (IP) systems in North America.
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  Modern food biotechnology, human health and development

  Department of Food Safety, Zoonoses and Foodborne Diseases, World Health Organization, 2005

  Despite a number of national and international initiatives, the use and development of modern food biotechnology remains a controversial global issue. Modern food biotechnology promises a new range of products and processes proclaimed to be for the public good, some related to agricultural benefits others directly or indirectly to health.
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  The role of biotechnology for the characterisation and conservation of crop, forest, animal and fishery genetic resources in developing countries

  Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture, FAO, 2005

  This document is a background paper to an e-forum conference hosted by the FAO Biotechnology Forum (June-July 2005), and considers the use of biotechnology tools in the characterisation and conservation of crop, forest, animal and fishery genetic resources in developing countries.It provides a brief overview of genetic resources for food and agriculture is provided; detailed information regardi
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  USAID: making the world hungry for GM crops

  GRAIN, 2005

  This briefing examines how the US government uses USAID to actively promote GM agriculture, focusing on USAID's major programmes for agricultural biotechnology and the regions where these programmes are most active in parts of Africa and Asia.The briefing highlights that:these USAID programmes are part of a multi-pronged strategy to advance US interests with GM cropsincreasingly the
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  GM crops in India: why open Pandora’s Box?

  Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2004

  This paper provides a critical review of a recently published report from the "Task Force on Application of Biotechnology in Agriculture" (see seperate record) headed by Dr. M.S.

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