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Searching with a thematic focus on Technology and innovation in agriculture, Agriculture and food, Agricultural policy, Biotechnology and GMOs, Biotechnology and GMOs governance

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  Bt cotton benefits, costs and impacts in China

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper provides a follow up study, 2000/1, of the effect of Bt cotton adoption in China, 1999.Main findings include:the production Bt cotton has positive crop yield impacts, shifting the crop yield frontier by nearly 10 percentBt cotton farmers increased their incomes by reducing use of pesticides and labour inputsBt cotton continues to have positive environmental and health
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  Biotechnology policy and regulation in China

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper refutes claims that China has in recent years fundamentally altered its stance on GMOs in response to trade, food safety and environmental biosafety concerns.
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  Domesticating global policy on GMOs: comparing China and India

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This IDS working paper compares the way in which two leading developing countries in the global debate on biotechnology have sought to translate policy commitments contained in international agreements on trade and biosafety into workable national policy. It is a complex story of selective interpretation, conflict over priorities and politicking at the highest levels of government.
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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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  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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  Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: the implications for food security in Kenya

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003

  This paper argues that for modern biotechnology research to have long term and wider positive social impact in Kenya, changes in policies and institutions must be implemented to ensure that it benefits the smallholder farmers who make up the majority of Kenya’s population.Critical issues examined include:biosafety food safetyloss of biodiversity IPRsThe report makes
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  IPRs, biotechnology and food security

  Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002

  This paper examines the development and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs) at the international and national level and the impacts of IPRs on biotechnology, agricultural practices and food security concerns in the context of globalisation.
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  Science, policy and regulation: challenges for agricultural biotechnology in developing countries

  Millennium Development Goals, 2001

  This paper addresses the question of the relationship between science, policy and regulation in the context of debates about the future of agricultural biotechnology. First the paper outlines some of the challenges for biotechnology policy and regulation before exploring the different contexts for biotechnology science and the framing of the policy debate.
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  Biotechnology and the politics of regulation

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2001

  This paper aims to refine thinking about the politics of regulating crop biotechnologies. Firstly it explores the purposes regulation serves in commercial, as well as broader social and political terms, arguing that risk management, facilitating trade and generating public trust are three of its key functions.
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  Biotechnology and the policy process: Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002

  This paper focuses on three areas of the biotechnology policy process. Firstly, it looks at the national policy framework, identifying key development and economic policies and in particular considering the implications of policy on food security and development.

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