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    GM crops and developing countries: a UK food group briefing, July 2003

    UK Food Group, 2003
    This short two page briefing argues that in most developing countries, whose small-scale, labour-intensive agriculture is dramatically different from the UK, GM crops are at best irrelevant and at worst can threaten local food production.
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    Biofuelwatch

    Biofuelwatch is a volunteer-led campaign group that campaigns against the use of bioenergy from unsustainable sources, i.e.
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    Who benefits from GM crops?

    Friends of the Earth International, 2008
    This paper provides a fact-based assessment of Genetically Modified (GM) crops around the world.
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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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    The adoption and economics of Bt cotton in India: preliminary results from a study

    Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2006
    This paper presents preliminary results from a study of the economics and adoption of Bt cotton in India. Biotech crops, which made their appearance in the world about a decade ago, have gained substantial popularity and acceptance in many parts of the world including US, China, Australia, Mexico, Argentina and South Africa.
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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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    Ten years of genetically modified crops in Argentine agriculture

    Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (National Institute for Agricultural Technology), Argentina, 2006
    Argentina is the world's second largest producer of genetically modified (GM) crops, after the United States, with over 17 million hectares planted. This paper explores the assertion that the introduction of GM crops into Argentinian agriculture represents a turning point not only for the farm sector but for the economy as a whole.
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    Tarnishing silver bullets: Bt technology adoption, bounded rationality and the outbreak of secondary pest infestations in China

    GRAIN, 2006
    The adoption of Bt cotton has had a huge impact on global cotton production. Many studies have focused on the potentially positive impact of Bt and the savings on pesticides targeting primary pests. However, in China, growing secondary pest populations have slowly eroded the benefits of Bt technology.
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    Can the poor help GM crops? Technology, representation and cotton in the Makhathini Flats, South Africa

    GRAIN, 2006
    The adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton in South Africa’s Makhathini Flats in 1998 was heralded as a case in which agricultural biotechnology could benefit smallholder farmers, and a model for the rest of the continent to follow.
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    Bales and balance: a review of the methods used to assess the economic impact of Bt cotton on farmers in developing economies

    AgBioForum, 2006
    This paper assesses 47 peer-reviewed articles that have applied stated economic methods to measure the farm-level impacts of Bt cotton in developing agriculture from 1996. The authors focus on methods, although findings are also contrasted and compared in qualitative terms.

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