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  The fight to feed the world

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  SciDev.Net summary (linking to the full article) of a Science editorial looking at how scientists are gearing up to challenges of securing food production in developing countries in the coming years.The article reveals both good news and bad. On the positive side, the World Bank and other big donor agencies have been galvanised into action.
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  The farm scale evaluations of spring-sown genetically modified crops

  Royal Society, 2003

  This Royal Society study of the impact of GMCs reveals significant differences in the effect on biodiversity when managing genetically modified herbicide-tolerant (GMHT) crops as compared to conventional varieties.
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  Engineering nutrition: GM crops for global justice?

  Food Ethics Council, 2003

  This report challenges the dominant view of the scientific establishment that the future of agriculture lies with genetic modification technologies.
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  Capacity building for sustainable development: an overview of UNEP environmental capacity development initiatives.

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2002

  This UNEP guide aims to highlight how capacity building is a central element of its activities particularly in it’s approach to assisting the sustainable development of developing countries and countries with economies in transition.The guide gives selected examples of capacity development taken from the past ten years since Rio and tries to project into the next decade, after Jo'burg.
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  Conservation and use of coffee genetic resources in Ethiopia: challenges and opportunities in the context of current global situations

  Global Development Network, 2003

  Coffee is the second most important exported commodity on earth, next to oil, so what are the appropriate management options in ensuring this genetic resource is sustained? This paper seeks to answer this question by studying the case of Ethiopia, making the assumption that managing the remaining forest as gene reserve is taken as the appropriate management option to achieve this aim.
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  Genetically modified crops and sustainable poverty alleviation in Sub Saharan Africa: an assessment of current evidence

  Third World Network Africa, 2003

  This paper recasts the debate over biotechnology by empirically evaluating current experiences with genetically modified crops in Africa. The debate is moved from hypothetical risks, to actual results.
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  New genetics, food and agriculture: scientific discoveries, societal dilemmas

  International Council for Science, 2003

  This report presents an overview of the findings of a selection of approximately 50 science-based reviews, published in years 2000-2003, on modern genetics and its applications in food and agriculture and the environment.The purpose of this analysis is to consider what are the issues that concern various societies, and, on the basis of the science underpinning the discoveries in modern genetics
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  The use of genetically modified crops in developing countries

  Nuffield Council on Bioethics, UK, 2003

  This discussion paper is a follow-up to the 1999 Report, Genetically modified crops: the ethical and social issues. Contributed as part of the UK public consultation on GM it aims to assess the potential risks and benefits associated with the use of genetically modified (GM) crops in developing countries in relation to improving food security and economically valuable agriculture.
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  Biotechnology and food security in Africa: some policy and institutional considerations

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2002

  This paper asks how biotechnology can affect food security in Africa. It advices caution in either promoting or opposing biotechnology for its own sake.The paper argues that:no technology by and of itself has internal momentum to create food security for any society of region. It is how the technology is applied and moulded by society that determines its usefulness.
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  GM crops: going against the grain

  ActionAid International, 2003

  This paper asks: Do GM crops help eradicate poverty? Do GM crops meet the needs of poor farmers? Do they threaten basic rights? Do GM crops threaten biodiversity? Do GM crops enhance informed choice and participation for poor people?Conclusion: The widespread adoption of GM crops seems likely to exacerbate the underlying causes of food insecurity, leading to more hungry people, not fewer.

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