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Searching with a thematic focus on Technology and innovation in agriculture, Agriculture and food, Agricultural biodiversity and natural resource management, Biotechnology and GMOs

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  Bt Cotton and small-scale farmers in Makhathini, South Africa: a story of debt, dependency, and dicey economics

  GRAIN, 2004

  This paper discusses the issues surrounding the adoption of Bt cotton in Makhathini, South Africa.
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  Ensuring safe use of biotechnology: key challenges

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2002

  This article identifies short and long-term challenges to biosafety governance in India.
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  On science and precaution in the management of technological risk

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2001

  This 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 intra
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  Accessing modern science: policy and institutional options for agricultural biotechnology in developing countries

  Eldis Document Store, 2001

  The 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 industrial
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  Trips with everything? Intellectual property and the farming world

  Food Ethics Council, 2002

  This 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.
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  Intellectual property rights and concentration in agricultural biotechnology

  Cornell University Library, 2003

  This paper explores the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and structural change in the agricultural biotechnology industry.
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  Private research and public goods: implications of biotechnology for biodiversity

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This paper, by the FAO's Agricultural and Development Economics Division, explores a range of policy options to increase the likelihood that private sector research and development, particularly in the form of transgenic crops, enhances rather than erodes crop genetic diversity.The principal findings of the paper include:transgenic crops may increase or decrease crop genetic diversity,
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  Report of the expert consultation on environmental effects of genetically modified crops

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This paper examines the outcomes of a three-day consultation on the 'Environmental Effects of Genetically Modified Crops', attended by sixteen technical experts.
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  Biotechnology applications in food processing: can developing countries benefit?

  Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture, FAO, 2004

  This document is the background paper for the 11th conference of the FAO Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture, 14 June to 11 July 2004.
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  Agricultural biotechnology development, policy and impacts in China

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002

  China is developing the largest plant biotechnology capacity outside North America and an impressive list of genetically modified (GM) crops under trial. However, underlying these achievements is a growing concern among policy-makers about the impact of the global biotechnology debate on China's agricultural trade.

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