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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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  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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  New generation of GM crops could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than grounding all the aircraft in the world

  Soyatech, 2007

  There is a growing realisation that climate change will present a serious challenge for farmers – and that could mean big profits for companies that can help them adapt to environmental stress. This article examines the new generation of genetically modified (GM) crops which are emerging in response to a changing climate. Points made include:
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  The next genetic revolution?

  The Ecologist, 2007

  In recent years, the biotech industry has put considerable effort into attempting to reposition genetically modified (GM) crops as a non-food, industrial “green” energy commodity. While genetically modified biofuel crops are already a reality in the US, the planting of GM crops in Europe is still very limited due to public resistance.
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  Farmers’ organizations and agricultural innovation: case studies from Benin, Rwanda and Tanzania

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2006

  Over the last decade, Sub-Saharan African countries have embarked on agricultural sector reforms, resulting in changing roles for the public and private sectors.
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  Embedding research in society: development assistance options for supporting agricultural innovation in a global knowledge economy

  United Nations University Institute for New technologies, 2008

  The emergence of a globalised knowledge economy, and the contemporary views of innovation capacity that this trend enables and informs, provides a new context in which development assistance to agricultural research and development needs to be considered.
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  Livestock breeding in the hands of corporations

  GRAIN, 2008

  This paper explores developments in the global livestock industry and their impact on smallholder farmers and the environment in developing countries. In particular, it considers the effect of free trade agreements, government policy, industrial companies and the technological revolution in fields like genetics.
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  Collective action for innovation and small farmer market access: the Papa Andina experience

  CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2007

  The Andean highlands are home to some of the poorest rural households in South America. Native potato varieties and local knowledge for their cultivation and use are unique resources possessed by farmers in these areas.

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