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  GM crops: going against the grain

  ActionAid International, 2003

  This paper asks: Do GM crops help eradicate poverty? Do GM crops meet the needs of poor farmers? Do they threaten basic rights? Do GM crops threaten biodiversity? Do GM crops enhance informed choice and participation for poor people?Conclusion: The widespread adoption of GM crops seems likely to exacerbate the underlying causes of food insecurity, leading to more hungry people, not fewer.
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  Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: the implications for food security in Kenya

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003

  This paper argues that for modern biotechnology research to have long term and wider positive social impact in Kenya, changes in policies and institutions must be implemented to ensure that it benefits the smallholder farmers who make up the majority of Kenya’s population.Critical issues examined include:biosafety food safetyloss of biodiversity IPRsThe report makes
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  Trade in genetically modified food: a survey of empirical studies

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper analyses the current and potential economic impact of GM commodities on world trade.It concludes that: in general, adopters of the more productive GM technologies gain, while non-adopters or GM-critical regions either do not gain at all or only gain some (through changes in world prices), depending on how strongly they segment their markets.
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  ISF view on intellectual property

  International Seed Federation, 2002

  This position paper from the International Seed Federation, an industry body, sets out the position of its members on IP protection for plant breeders and other related issues. ISF members are, not surprisingly, unanimously in favour of a strong IP protection.The federation considers that both ‘sui generis’ and patent style systems are legitimate.
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  IPRs, biotechnology and food security

  Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002

  This paper examines the development and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs) at the international and national level and the impacts of IPRs on biotechnology, agricultural practices and food security concerns in the context of globalisation.
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  Public participation and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2003

  This report summarises a study of the ways in which different countries have sought to promote and facilitate public awareness and participation in the design and implementation of their national biosafety frameworks (NBFs).
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  Terminator five years later

  Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration formerly RAFI, 2003

  This edition of "Communique" looks at the current policy situation with relation to the development and use of 'Terminator' technology in GM seed varieties.
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  Biotechnology and the issues interconnected with and through it

  Biowatch South Africa, 2002

  This paper takes a step back from the policy issues surrounding biotechnology and its role in development to present a broad discussion of the biotechnology sector and its implications.The paper argues that if biotechnology is to develop usefully, the risks involved with it should be prevented.
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  Biotechnology and biodiversity: key policy issues for South Africa

  Biowatch South Africa, 2000

  This paper from Biowatch describes some of the potential effects of genetic modification on biodiversity and the environment, within both the global and South African context. Background information about the nature and extent of the biotechnology industry is presently followed by a description of the potential risks and effects of biotechnology on biodiversity.
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  Policy, national regulation, and international standards for GM foods

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  The adoption of biotechnology and the introduction of GM foods into the international marketplace has exacerbated an already difficult area of trade policy. As biotechnology increases productive capacity in various products, it also increases the need to trade. But diverging national regulations are increasingly impeding trade in these products creating market distortions.

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