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  Industrial Reliance on Biodiversity

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1997

  Overview of the extent to which industry in the developed world relies on the biodiversity of the developing world. Primitive human societies rely almost entirely on wild species for food, draught, building materials and other products, and such direct use continues in modern society.
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  The Debate on Genetically Modified Organisms: Relevance for the South

  Overseas Development Institute, 1998

  Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are at the centre of extraordinary controversy. The implications of these debates must be addressed by policy makers in the South. Concerns about MOs include environmental impact, food safety, the control of agricultural technology, and the direction of agricultural change.
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  Biotechnology in Crops: Issues for the developing world

  Oxfam, 1998

  Overview of issues and actors in the debate on genetically modified crops.
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  Selling Suicide: farming, false promises and genetic engineering in developing countries

  Christian Aid, 1999

  Experience shows that large gaps between rich and poor, ownership of resources concentrated in too few hands, and a food supply based on too few varieties of crops, are the classic preconditions for hunger and famine. New technologies are taking us further down this ill-advised farm track.
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  Crop Biotechnology in Developing Countries: A Conceptual Framework for Ex Ante Economic Analyses

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 1998

  Presents a framework within which the potential costs (including negative outcomes) and benefits of specific biotechnologies can be analysed within a developing country context.Method takes into account institutional arrangements and political support systems, and aims to support policy decision making at various stages of the technology adoption path.
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  Genetically modified crops: reporting from New Sceintist

  New Scientist, 1999

  News and feature items from the weekly journal New Scientist on GMCs
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  Green revolution technology takes root in Africa: the promise and challenge of the Ministry of Agriculture/SG2000 experiment with improved cereals technology in Ethiopia

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999

  Examines economic benefits of introducing new technologies for maize and teff growing in Ethiopia, based on experimental projects.
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  Plant variety protection to feed Africa?: Rhetoric versus reality

  GRAIN, 1999

  The Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) claim the introduction of plant variety protection (a form of patent law) will contribute to food security, sustainable agriculture, and the protection of the environment and of biodiversity.
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  Blast, biotech and big business: implications of corporate strategies on rice research in Asia

  GRAIN, 2000

  The rice blast disease and industry’s approaches to dealing with it provide a clear example of how corporate research and development (R&D) strategies are diverging from the needs and means of farmers, particularly in the poorer countries of South and Southeast Asia.
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  ISAAA in Asia: promoting corporate profits in the name of the poor

  GRAIN, 2000

  The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) is one of the most focused promoters of gene technologies in Asia. Through the formation and support of key local elites, ISAAA is helping carry out an agenda set by transnational corporations (TNCs), in the name of Asia’s rural poor.

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