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  Protecting community rights over traditional knowledge: implications of customary laws and practices

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  This collaborative research project seeks to assist indigenous and local communities I protecting their rights over traditional knowledge (TK) relating to biological resources, in accordance with their customary laws and practices. The project further aims to inform and influence policy makers at all levels.
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  Transforming knowledge and ways of knowing for food sovereignty

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  In this book, the author focuses on the need to transform knowledge and ways of knowing to regenerate locally controlled food systems.The author discusses how the production of ecologically-literate and socially-just knowledge implies a radical shift from the existing top-down and increasingly corporate-controlled research system, to an approach which devolves more decision-making power to farm
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  Constraints and opportunities of horticulture production and marketing in Eastern Ethiopia

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2007

  What are the major opportunities and constraints to improving horticultural production and . marketing in Ethopia?
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  Reclaiming policy space: lessons from Malawi’s fertiliser subsidy programme

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2007

  This case study argues that political context matters in agricultural development issues using the fertiliser subsidy scheme in Malawi as an example.
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  ILO Convention 169 and the private sector: questions and answers for IFC clients

  International Finance Corporation, 2007

  This note seeks to address the private sector’s role in complying with the International Labour Organisation’s Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples.
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  Law and modern biotechnology: selected issues of relevance to food and agriculture

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This study reviews international, regional and a selection of national laws related to Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), considering three categories of legal instruments: those dealing with biosafety, food safety and consumer protection.The study deals with issues such as:public participation in the regulatory policy-making processoversight mechanisms to examine the merits of
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  The deadly chemicals in cotton

  Environmental Justice Foundation, 2007

  Cotton is the world’s most important non-food agricultural commodity and its production accounts for over one sixth of global insecticide consumption. This report highlights the environmental and human health cost of pesticide use in global cotton production. It provides case studies of West Africa, Uzbekistan and India.
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  Regulating the use of genetic resources between international authorities

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2006

  A large number of stakeholders are involved in the use of and the international transactions with genetic resources.
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  Livestock's long shadow: environmental issues and options

  Livestock, Environment and Development, Virtual Research and Development Centre, 2006

  The global livestock sector is socially and politically very significant, creating livelihoods for one billion of the world’s poor and accounting for 40% of agricultural gross demestic product (GDP). This report finds that the value of the sector is countered by an often extremely high environmental impact.
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  Monsanto and smallholder farmers: a case-study on corporate accountability

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  This paper examines Monsanto’s Smallholder Programme (SHP) and considers the implications of the programme on corporate accountability.

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