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  Bt cotton in Andhra Pradesh: a three-year assessment

  Deccan Development Society, Hyderabad, India, 2005

  This paper investigates the case of GM (Genetically Modified) Bt cotton in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is based on a three-year assessment of farmers' engagement with Bt cotton, examining the economics of its adoption, and the resultant difficulties faced by farmers.
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  Are rural women disadvantaged in asset ownership and business relations in the Kyrgyz Republic?

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper examines how, over the past 10 years, Kyrgyzstan has privatised most of its agricultural land and distributed it to individual households. These households either farm alone or join together and farm cooperatively. This research seeks to examine whether women have been adversely affected in the process of privatisation, asset ownership, or business development.
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  Communication strategies in the age of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services: lessons from two African experiences

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper describes the challenges of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services from the perspective of communication strategy development. The author argues that the wave of decentralisation and privatisation in rural services worldwide has created a challenge for rural communities, service providers and local governments.
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  India’s national agricultural policy: a critique

  Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2004

  The National Agricultural Policy (NAP) document released by the Government of Indian in 2000 aimed to attain an agricultural output growth rate in excess of 4 percent per annum, based on efficient use of resources, and sought to achieve this growth in a sustainable and equitable manner.This paper argues that (by 2004) no serious action had been initiated on most of the NAP’s proposals, and blam
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  Baseline study on the problem of obsolete pesticide stocks

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001

  Large stockpiles of obsolete pesticides have been accumulated in virtually all developing countries throughout the last four decades. This baseline study provides an overview of the current global situation in relation to obsolete pesticides and reviews the perspective of the various organisations with an interest in the issue.
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  State transfers to the poor and back: the case of the food for work programme in Andhra Pradesh

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper discusses the shortcomings of the Food for Work programme in Andhra Pradesh to provide employment to drought-affected poor people.
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  The new bioeconomy: industrial and environmental biotechnology in developing countries

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2001

  This paper discusses some of the most important features of the emergence of industrial and environmental biotechnology as a growing segment of the new bioeconomy.Conclusions of the paper include:the wider adoption of these technologies will depend largely on the extent to which global economic governance provides adequate space for the emerging technologiesthe importance of a more
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  Voices from the south: the third world debunks corporate myths on genetically engineered crops

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2003

  This paper discusses the common myths regarding genetically engineered crops, from a southern perspective.
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  A conceptual framework for national agricultural, rural development, and food security strategies and policies

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This paper discusses a conceptual framework, developed by the Food and Agricultural Organization, to address food security through agricultural and rural development, and direct actions to enhance immediate access to food.Highlights of the paper include:all relevant parties should be involved in the debate on the definitions of the conceptual framework objectives, helping to rally the p
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  Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: the international regulation of modern biotechnology

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper discusses the issues surrounding the international governance and regulation of modern biotechnology.Principal conclusions of the paper include:the disciplines imposed by the relevant WTO Agreements underpin and shape the biotech regulation debate both internationally and nationallythere remains a degree of uncertainty and unpredictability regarding the scope for countrie

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