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  Can GM-technologies help the poor?: the impact of Bt Cotton in Makhathini Flats and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  GRAIN, 2003

  This paper reports on a two-year survey of one hundred smallholder farmers in South Africa who adopted Bt cotton, from 1999-2000.The results of the survey include:higher cotton yields and lower chemical costs outweighed higher Bt cotton seed costs, giving higher gross marginsonce labour savings are taken into account, the Bt cotton adopters were considerably more efficient than thos
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  Making co-ownership work?: helping land reform beneficiaries access land and financial resources through equity sharing in South Africa

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This brief paper argues that through co-ownership, co-operatives offer a significant pathway for poor beneficiaries to secure land, wealth and financial resources - with benefits being augmented through sound institutions, human capital development and grant support. In reviewing Farm Worker Equity Share (FWES) schemes the authors recommend a combination of institutional practices that can be
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  Bt Cotton and small-scale farmers in Makhathini, South Africa: a story of debt, dependency, and dicey economics

  GRAIN, 2004

  This paper discusses the issues surrounding the adoption of Bt cotton in Makhathini, South Africa.
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  Possible causes of poverty within a group of land reform beneficiaries in the midlands of KwaZulu-Natal: analysis and policy recommendations

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This study investigates possible causes of poverty afflicting a community of land reform beneficiaries in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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  Understanding the legacies of political violence: an examination of political conflict in Mpumalanga Township, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2004

  This working paper argues that the political and social violence of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) can trace its roots back to the region's violent political conflicts between the United Democratic Front and Inkatha during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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  Child poverty and cash transfers

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper addresses the effectiveness of cash transfers in addressing childhood poverty in developing and transition economies.
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  Benefits from Bt Cotton use by smallholder farmers in South Africa

  AgBioForum, 2001

  This paper describes the results of research conducted in the Makhathini region, Kwazulu Natal, Republic of South Africa, designed to explore the economic benefits of the adoption of Bt cotton for smallholders.The paper highlights the following points:Bt cotton had higher yields than non-Bt varieties and generated greater revenueseed costs for Bt cotton were double those of non-Bt,
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  Patents, access to medicines and the role of non-governmental organisations

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2004

  This Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) paper looks at how patents adversely affect access to affordable medicines. Although effective medicine is available to treat many global diseases, one-third of the world’s population lacks access to these basic, but expensive drugs as a result of patent rights.
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  Methodological challenges to impact assessment of codes of practice

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2002

  To date there has been little independent assessment of whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives such as codes of practice actually deliver in terms of social and environmental effects.Through a discussion of the authors’ evolving research into the impact of codes in the South African wine industry, this conference paper outlines some of the methodological issues involved in ev
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  The use of "asset swaps" by institutional investors in South Africa

  World Bank, 2003

  Developing countries’ restrictions on international investment are designed to protect foreign exchange reserves and limit capital flight, but also have the effect of preventing institutional investors such as pension funds and insurance companies from diversifying their country risk.This paper argues that for developing countries, asset swaps, whereby institutional investors agree to swap the

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