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  Regulation of biotechnology in LDCs: implications for technology development and transfer

  AgBioForum, 1999

  This paper explores the role of regulation in agricultural biotechnology innovation and diffusion in the developing world.
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  Intellectual property rights and concentration in agricultural biotechnology

  Cornell University Library, 2003

  This paper explores the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and structural change in the agricultural biotechnology industry.
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  Agricultural biotechnology for developing countries: results of an electronic forum

  Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture, FAO, 2001

  This document is a report of the first six conferences of the FAO’s Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture, ruuning between March 2000 and May 2001. The first four conferences dealt with the appropriateness of currently available biotechnologies in the crop, forestry, livestock and fishery sectors, respectively for food and agriculture in developing countries.
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  Prajateerpu: a Citizens Jury / Scenario Workshop on Food and Farming Futures for Andhra Pradesh, India

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2002

  Prajateerpu, the citizens jury on food and farming futures in Andhra Pradesh, was a six-day exercise in deliberative democracy involving marginal-livelihood citizens from all three regions of the state.Prajateerpu’s aim was to make a contribution towards ensuring that those citizens who are often left out of the policy debates were allowed an opportunity to inform themselves about Andhra Prades
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  Fighting poverty through agriculture: Norwegian plan of action for agriculture in Norwegian development policy

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004

  Under this Norwegian strategy, development assistance for agricultural development will be scaled up considerably. The plan sets out 50 measures for promoting agricultural development in developing countries.It takes a holistic approach in which agricultural development is part of a broader strategy for private sector development that considers the entire production chain from field to table.
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  Water and development: experiences of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in the water sector

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2003

  The connections and interactions between water and health, hygiene, nutrition, methods of cultivation, the protection and sustainable use of natural resources, productivity, income generation, local governance, economic policy, legal systems and participation in political decisions are of central concern in sustainable development.This document provides background information on SDCs engagement
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  The processes and dynamics of pastoralist representation in Ethiopia

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper looks at one example of how the political representation pastoralists in Ethiopia is shifting and changing.
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  Building on success in African agriculture: are Kenya's horticultural exports a replicable success story?

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  Summarising a background paper presented at the 'Successes in African Agriculture: Building for the Future' conference, this brief examines some of the factors that have contributed to the over six percent growth in Kenyan horticulture exports over the last 30 years.
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  Assuring food and nutrition security in Africa by 2020: a way forward from the 2020 Africa Conference

  2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This report is the draft outcome document of the Conference on Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020 held from 1-3 April 2004.
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  Water for people, water for life: the United Nations world water development report [executive summary]

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003

  This document presents the key points of the first World Water Development Report, a joint undertaking of twenty-three United Nations (UN) agencies under the guidance of the new World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP). The report explores the state of the world’s water resources, and tries to identify the causes and consequences of the world’s current water crisis.

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