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    GM in India: the battle over Bt cotton

    SciDev.Net, 2006
    This article explores the chequered history of GM technology in India, arguing that much of the country's GM debate (the polarised opinions of the pro-GM government and industry and anti-GM activists) stems from the introduction of Bt cotton into India by US biotech giant Monsanto in 1995. The authors argues that Bt cotton, contrary to the positive picture of Bt cotton's impacts painted by the
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    Ecological impact of GM crops: time for a sober scientific assessment

    Science in Africa, 2004
    Assessing the environmental impact of genetically modified (GM) crops requires more than just a tunnel vision approach which looks at hypothetical risks, this article argues.
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    Protecting farmers' rights in the global IPR regime

    South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2007
    In developing countries, the vast majority of farmers still act as stewards and innovators of genetic diversity and farmers' rights are about enabling this to continue and rewarding them for their contribution to the global genetic pool.
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    Compensation for Ecosystem Services (CES): a catalyst for ecosystem conservation and poverty alleviation?

    InfoResources, 2004
    This document looks at the use of Compensation Ecosystem Services (CES) as a potential catalyst for ecosystem conservation and poverty alleviation. It aims to improve understanding of the concept and also discusses the key challenges faced in implementation of CES.
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    Bunda College of Agriculture

      The college aims to advance and promote knowledge , skills, self-reliance and sound character for:
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    Monitoring land cover dynamics in sub-saharan Africa

    European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2006
    Over the last 25 years civil disturbances, drought, population increases and global market pressures have all contributed in direct and indirect ways to a modification of Sub saharan African land cover. 
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    Whose harvest? The politics of organic seed certification

    GRAIN, 2008
    As the market for organic goods continues to grow, seed corporations are increasingly pushing for organic seed certification schemes, which some argue could create market opportunities for small farmers. But will the new regulations governing seeds pushing organics even further down the road of corporate control?
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    Sustainable management of common natural resources in Mongolia (Ph III)

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    Communities have coped for millennia through extremes of flood and drought by cooperatively managing shared natural resources, and by cultivating a variety of robust, indigenous crop types that can survive a range of conditions. Knowledge and use of diverse plant types - either planted or foraged - could be key to survival as climate extremes widen.
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    Farmers’ rights and agrobiodiversity

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2006
    In 2004, the members of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) adopted the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, which includes an article on Farmers’ Rights (FR). This paper looks at what is meant by FR, how these rights have been implemented in a different contexts and what development organisations can do to support their implementation.
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    BirdLife International

    By focusing on birds, and the sites and habitats on which they depend, the BirdLife Partnership is working to improve the quality of life for birds, for other wildlife (biodiversity), and for peopl

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