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  Implications of genetically modified food technology policies for Sub-Saharan Africa

  World Bank, 2004

  The first generation of genetically modified (GM) crop varieties sought to increase farmer profitability through cost reductions or higher yields.
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  Regulating biotechnology in practice – the case of Bt cotton in India

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Regulatory policy on biotechnology advocates decision-making according to technical and scientific criteria. In practice, however, regulation emerges through a political process of negotiation between groups with diverse agendas.
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  Governing biotechnology: regulation of business or regulation for business?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Biotechnology regulation is more responsive to the commercial concerns of the private sector than to public anxiety about the risks associated with genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
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  Biotechnology politics in Delhi’s corridors of power

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Liberalisation in India relaxed several restrictions on the activities of foreign firms that operate locally. Consequently, an increasing number of multinational agricultural biotechnology companies set up operations in India. New Delhi’s biotechnology policy is now influenced by a small number of major foreign firms and local entrepreneurs with national and global connections.
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  Terminator technology: the economic benefits of sterile seeds

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Terminator technology – the emerging technology for inducing sterility in seeds – is potentially detrimental to both biodiversity and the livelihoods of poor farmers forced to buy fresh seed every year. Repeat seed purchase, however, provides greater scope for companies to capture returns on their research investments in plant breeding.
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  Poorer nations turn to publicly developed GM crops

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This paper presents the results of a study that explored the current state of research, regulation, genetic resources and institutional roles in developing GM crops.
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  The demand for crop genetic resources from international collections

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  While acknowledging the significance of historical patterns, this study provides a snapshot of recent flows of genetic resources in agriculture, enabled through the centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
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  The discourse of the GM food debate : how language choices affect public trust

  Economic and Social Research Council, UK, 2004

  This report examines how the UK public responded to information about GM food technology. It assesses how new technology is communicated to the public and how it is assessed by them. In 2003 when the UK government sponsored a GM National Debate, consisting of an economic review, scientific review and public consultation.
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  Agricultural Biotechnology Research Partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa (Technology Policy Brief)

  United Nations University Institute for New technologies, 2004

  A widely accepted mechanism for providing developing countries with access to proprietary biotechnology products and tools is the formation of partnerships between Southern and Northern research institutions and multinational private companies.
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  Model National Biosafety Law: an introduction to the Model National Law on Biosafety

  Third World Network, 1999

  Nations of the South are increasingly faced with the prospect of the introduction into their countries of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and products derived from GMOs.

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