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  Bt cotton benefits, costs and impacts in China

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper provides a follow up study, 2000/1, of the effect of Bt cotton adoption in China, 1999.Main findings include:the production Bt cotton has positive crop yield impacts, shifting the crop yield frontier by nearly 10 percentBt cotton farmers increased their incomes by reducing use of pesticides and labour inputsBt cotton continues to have positive environmental and health
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  Biotechnology policy and regulation in China

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper refutes claims that China has in recent years fundamentally altered its stance on GMOs in response to trade, food safety and environmental biosafety concerns.
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  The biotech developmental state?: investigating the Chinese gene revolution

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper looks at how and why China has pursued research on agricultural biotechnology within the public sector, in contrast with other parts of the world where the private sector has been dominant. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of science-policy networks in promoting a biotechnology discourse.
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  Business and biotechnology: regulation and the politics of influence

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper explores the issue of regulation of biotechnology products at the national and international level, paying special attention to the role of biotechnology firms and the responses of civil society groups.It argues that the private biotechnology sector, thanks to its level of expertise and the amount of capital it owns, is a key adviser and a powerful player in the politics of biotechno
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  Performance of BT cotton in India: data from the first commercial crop

  Gene Campaign, 2003

  This paper presents data on the field study of the first genetically modified crop to be cultivated in India.
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  The profits of famine: Southern Africa's long decade of hunger

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2002

  This article explores the causes of famine and chronic malnutrition in Southern Africa.
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  The adoption and impact of agricultural biotechnology innovations in South Africa

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2002

  South Africa is one of the few developing countries and probably the only one in Africa that has adopted some new biotechnology inputs, largely maize and cotton seeds, but what research is being performed to investigate the effects?
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  BT cotton in South Africa: adoption and the impact on farm incomes amongst small-scale and large scale farmers

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2002

  South Africa is one of few developing countries, and the only one in Africa that has adopted genetically modified crops for commercial production, so why has this policy been pursued, and with what effects?
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  Domesticating global policy on GMOs: comparing China and India

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This IDS working paper compares the way in which two leading developing countries in the global debate on biotechnology have sought to translate policy commitments contained in international agreements on trade and biosafety into workable national policy. It is a complex story of selective interpretation, conflict over priorities and politicking at the highest levels of government.
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  Understanding local perspectives: participation of resource poor farmers in biotechnology: the case of Wedza District of Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This background paper from the IDS “Biotechnology and the policy process in developing countries” project examines the perspectives and participation in agricultural biotechnologies projects of resource-poor farmers in the Wedza district of Zimbabwe. Farmers in this region are faced with tremendous farming challenges that are adversely impacting on their livelihoods.

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