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Agri-food research: participation and the public good
Food Ethics Council, 2004What should be the role of participatory processes in publicly funded research on food and agriculture? What are the different experiences of participation in science and policy?DocumentAgricultural biotechnology, trade and the developing countries
AgBioForum, 2000This paper discusses issues of biotechnology and trade in relation to the economic and social development of developing countries.The paper particularly highlights:developing countries and their low-income people could benefit significantly from the development and use of modern biotechnology in agriculture within a proper biosafety regimeinternational agreements on biosafety, biodiDocumentBenefits from Bt Cotton use by smallholder farmers in South Africa
AgBioForum, 2001This paper describes the results of research conducted in the Makhathini region, Kwazulu Natal, Republic of South Africa, designed to explore the economic benefits of the adoption of Bt cotton for smallholders.The paper highlights the following points:Bt cotton had higher yields than non-Bt varieties and generated greater revenueseed costs for Bt cotton were double those of non-Bt,DocumentOn science and precaution in the management of technological risk
European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2001This paper discusses the debate over the relative merits of scientific and precautionary approaches to the management of technological risk.The paper highlights the following points:rather than seeing ‘precaution’ as being in tension with ‘science based regulation’, the key elements of a precautionary approach are entirely consistent with sound scientific practice in responding to intraDocumentSARL Prajateerpu e-forum on participatory processes for policy change
Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme, IIED, 2002The release of the report of the Prajateerpu scenario workshop and citizen jury experiment in Andhra Pradesh, India ignited an international debate over the use of participatory approaches to inform and influence policy from below.DocumentAccessing modern science: policy and institutional options for agricultural biotechnology in developing countries
Eldis Document Store, 2001The paper highlights the complexity of the challenge in developing new forms of collaboration between a variety of actors in the biotechnology area in developing countries, including, national research systems with very diverse capacities in biotechnology, international research centres, local private R&D companies, global life science companies, and advanced research institutes in both industrialDocumentGoverning the GM crop revolution: policy choices for developing countries
2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000This paper introduces a system for classifying policy choices toward GM crops in the areas of intellectual property rights, food safety, biosafety, trade, and public research investment.DocumentBT cotton in China
Greenpeace International, 2002This paper discusses the issues surrounding BT cotton in China. BT cotton is the main genetically modified crop variety in large scale production in China. Recent research shows that BT cotton is effective in controlling the primary pest of cotton.DocumentTrips with everything? Intellectual property and the farming world
Food Ethics Council, 2002This report briefly outlines some general issues arising in intellectual property (IP), in addition to discussing the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in the World Trade Organization.