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Agricultural diversification for the poor: guidelines for practitioners
World Bank, 2004This study outlines practical ways for implementing diversification activities. The emphasis is on how the diversification process can be made pro-poor with minimum risk involved.DocumentState transfers to the poor and back: the case of the food for work programme in Andhra Pradesh
Overseas Development Institute, 2003This paper discusses the shortcomings of the Food for Work programme in Andhra Pradesh to provide employment to drought-affected poor people.DocumentThe new bioeconomy: industrial and environmental biotechnology in developing countries
United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2001This 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 moreDocumentVoices from the south: the third world debunks corporate myths on genetically engineered crops
Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2003This paper discusses the common myths regarding genetically engineered crops, from a southern perspective.DocumentA conceptual framework for national agricultural, rural development, and food security strategies and policies
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003This 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 pDocumentGlobalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: the international regulation of modern biotechnology
Eldis Document Store, 2003This 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 countrieDocumentTen reasons why biotechnology will not ensure food security, protect the environment or reduce poverty in the developing world
AgBioForum, 2001This paper details ten reasons as to why agricultural biotechnology will not ensure food security, reduce poverty or protect the environment in developing countries.Key highlights of the paper include:the unfounded Malthusian view that hunger is due to a gap between food production and human population growththat current bio-engineered crops are not designed to increase yields for pDocumentCan GM-technologies help the poor?: the impact of Bt Cotton in Makhathini Flats and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
GRAIN, 2003This 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 thosDocumentBt Cotton and small-scale farmers in Makhathini, South Africa: a story of debt, dependency, and dicey economics
GRAIN, 2004This paper discusses the issues surrounding the adoption of Bt cotton in Makhathini, South Africa.