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  Public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology

  Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 2001

  This edition of the Biotechnology and Development Monitor surveys the perceptions and expectations that have developed in the public domain on agricultural gene technology in recent years. Authors from different parts of the world analyse the factors that have influenced public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology as applied to agriculture in their own countries over the last 25 years.
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  Did BT Cotton fail Andhra Pradesh again in 2003-2004?

  Deccan Development Society, Hyderabad, India, 2004

  This paper reports on the economic performance of BT Cotton in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
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  SARL Prajateerpu e-forum on participatory processes for policy change

  Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme, IIED, 2002

  The release of the report of the Prajateerpu scenario workshop and citizen jury experiment in Andhra Pradesh, India ignited an international debate over the use of participatory approaches to inform and influence policy from below.
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  Accessing modern science: policy and institutional options for agricultural biotechnology in developing countries

  Eldis Document Store, 2001

  The paper highlights the complexity of the challenge in developing new forms of collaboration between a variety of actors in the biotechnology area in developing countries, including, national research systems with very diverse capacities in biotechnology, international research centres, local private R&D companies, global life science companies, and advanced research institutes in both industrial
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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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  Livelihoods approaches to information and communication in support of rural poverty elimination and food security

  Research and Policy in Development, ODI, 2003

  This report looks at the of information in livelihoods, and makes recommendations on how agencies can capitalise on and integrate the best elements of traditional communication methods and the ICT revolution technologies within the livelihoods approach. Seven key recommendations were identified :
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  Financing agricultural marketing: The Asian experience

  Agricultural Marketing, FAO, 2004

  Reporting an exploratory study, this paper looks at how traders and processors of grains and horticultural produce in Asia finance their marketing activities and how they use that finance.The paper concludes that lack of working capital is probably not a major constraint to the functioning of agricultural marketing systems in Asia.
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  Food security and intellectual property rights in developing countries

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003

  This paper examines the implications of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on food security and the agricultural sector.
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  Bt cotton: benefits for poor farmers?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper questions whether, on the basis of a few favourable studies and a few years' experience, Bt cotton (cotton genetically engineered to express the insecticidal toxin Bacillus Thuringiensis) can be relied upon to produce benefits for poor farmers.The paper identifies a number of implications:the positive results shown by Bt cotton in the first few years are likely to be highly c
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  Organic agriculture and rural poverty alleviation: potential and best practices in Asia

  Poverty and Development Division, UNESCAP, 2002

  This document studies the rapidly developing organic farming sector in Asia. It looks at concepts and practices, export potential, market developments and, first and foremost, success cases where small and marginal farmers in the rural areas were able to increase their livelihood through organic agriculture.

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