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  Structural damage: the causes and consequences of Malawi’s food crisis

  World Development Movement, 2002

  This report from WDM details IMF enforced policies which it claims have undermined Malawi’s ability to feed its people.
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  African hunger and GM maize

  SciDev.Net, 2002

  This short editorial from SciDev.Net explores the issues around the decision by Zimbabwe and Zambia to reject US food aid because it contains some genetically modified grain.The author briefly discusses the perceived health risks, the economic implcations in terms of trade and the political issues which inform this debate and pinpoints a number of lessons which should be learned.
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  Better dead than GM fed?

  GRAIN, 2002

  Article from GRAIN which provides commentary on the controvesy surrounding the use of GM food aid in the Southern Africa food crisis.
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  WFP policy on donations of foods derived from biotechnology (GM/biotech foods)

  United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2002

  This paper, presented to the WFP Executive Board for consideration, outlines the WFP policy on donations of foods derived from biotechnology, summarises lessons learned from the Southern Africa emergency and outlines follow-up measures.The WFP policy that has been in effect with regard to all donations of foods is summarised as follows:WFP distributes only foods that meet the food safet
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  Modern biotechnology and developing-world agriculture

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002

  This essay provides and introduction to agricultural biotechnology in a developing country context. The author looks at issues of food security, consumer acceptance, sectoral change and regulation in the context of advances in genomics and bioinformatics which have led to an increase in the rate and volume of advances in the biotech.
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  USAID and GM food aid

  Greenpeace International, 2002

  This paper is essentially a rebuttal of claims by the head of USAID that environmental groups were "endangering the lives of millions of people in southern Africa by encouraging local governments to reject genetically modified (GM) food aid".
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  To die or not to die: this is the problem

  AgBioWorld Foundation, 2002

  This paper from the AgBioWorld Foundation is a direct response to an earlier paper from the Zambian Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre (KATC) and the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) which challenged the suitability of existing GM technology for Zambian agriculture and supported their Governments position with regard to GM food aid.The authors directly attack the findings of the
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  What is the impact of GMOs on sustainable agriculture in Zambia?

  Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection, Zambia, 2002

  This study argues strongly that the introduction of GM crops to Zambia will have considerable negative effects and negligable benefits for the development of small scale agricutlure on which the country's food security depends.Further the author claims that a concerted campaign of 'propoganda and distortion' has been undertaken by the biotechnology industry to persuade national leaders that GM
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  Integrated drought management: lessons for sub-Saharan Africa

  UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2002

  The document discusses the need for a more integrated approach to drought than has been the case.
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  Intellectual property rights in African agriculture: implications for small farmers

  GRAIN, 2002

  This paper looks at the choice facing African policy-makers over which of two opposing models of agricultural R&D to choose to support. One is driven by multinational companies in the North and relies upon private monopolies and genetically modified crops.

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