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  Agricultural biotechnology policy processes in China

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001

  This paper explores the main features of policy and policy processes surrounding agricultural biotechnology in China, traces the emergence of the current situation historically, and identifies potential issues for subsequent research.Findings include:China considers agricultural biotechnology as a primary measure to improve its national food security, raise agricultural productivity, an
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  Regulatory manoeuvres: the Bt cotton controversy in India

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines how the regulatory policy governing agricultural biotechnology, in particular Bt cotton, has been co constructed by the interaction of scientists, bureaucrats, politicians, farmers, NGO activists, media commentators and others, from the local to the national level and even to the global arena.The paper particularly focuses on the interaction between national and state level
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  Making policy in the 'new economy': the case of biotechnology in Karnataka, India

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the new politics of policy making in India, focusing on the biotechnology sector. It traces the origins of the millennium biotechnology policy in Karnataka state in order to expand upon it's central theory that a new style of politics is emerging in response to the changing contexts of the new economy era.
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  Tracing policy connections: the politics of knowledge in the Green Revolution and biotechnology eras in India

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper compares policy making in the "Green Revolution" and "biotechnology" eras to explore the dynamic interaction of global and more local knowledge about agriculture, food and rural development.The paper argues that the biotechnology era is unquestionably different from the Green Revolution, in a number of key respects: the nature and complexity of policy narratives associated wi
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  Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: development of IPR regime in India with reference to agricultural biotechnology

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper looks at debates over the evolution of the IPRs regime in India as it relates to agricultural biotechnology.
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  Intellectual property rights, biotechnology and food security

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the relationship between food security, agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs), particularly for developing countries and poorer groups within those countries.Main findings include:for low income developing countries, the costs of strengthening IPRs may well outweigh the gainspro-IPR industry representatives and trade officials, with p
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  Rights and risk: challenging biotechnology policy in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper looks at how a rights based approach can be applied to biotechnology policy. Drawing on the experience of Zimbabwe and other countries in southern Africa, this paper argues that a risk based approach to biotechnology regulation creates an artificial divide between civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights.
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  Contexts for regulation: GMOs in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper looks at the regulation of biotechnology in Zimbabwe.
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  Biotech firms, biotech politics: negotiating GMOs in India

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper explores the different corporate strategies of firms in the biotech and seed sectors and looks at how they have organised themselves to influence the policy process.The paper suggests the importance of looking at divisions within capital and the political alliances that firms form as a basis for understanding the ways in which policy choices are framed and decisions taken.
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  Seeds in a globalised world: agricultural biotechnology in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper looks at what biotechnology might mean for agricultural and food production systems in Zimbabwe and looks at some of the strategic questions that lie behind decisions to go the GM route in agriculture.Several factors are identified and discussed including:technology choiceissues of technology access and ownershipthe role of new farmers emerging as a result of land ref

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