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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food in India

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  Prajateerpu: a citizens jury / scenario workshop on food and farming futures for Andhra Pradesh, India

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper discusses the opposition to Andhra Pradesh’s "Vision 2020" strategy for development.
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  Public participation in national biotechnology policy and biosafety regulation

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper explores the challenges entailed in applying the principles and methods of public participation to national and international policy processes.
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  Making policy in the 'new economy': the case of biotechnology in Karnataka, India

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the new politics of policy making in India, focusing on the biotechnology sector. It traces the origins of the millennium biotechnology policy in Karnataka state in order to expand upon it's central theory that a new style of politics is emerging in response to the changing contexts of the new economy era.
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  Food security and the millennium development goal on hunger in Asia

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.It identifies the key issues relating to food security in Asia, setting out progress and the prospects for achieving the MDG on hunger and analysing how these issues are likely to develop in 10 to 25 years time, in par
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  Performance of BT cotton in India: data from the first commercial crop

  Gene Campaign, 2003

  This paper presents data on the field study of the first genetically modified crop to be cultivated in India.
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  Financing of agricultural marketing: case studies from Asia

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This study looks at how traders of grains and horticultural produce in Asia finance their activities and how they use that finance.
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  Gender and sustainable development in drylands: an analysis of field experiences

  Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003

  With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia.
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  Domesticating global policy on GMOs: comparing China and India

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This IDS working paper compares the way in which two leading developing countries in the global debate on biotechnology have sought to translate policy commitments contained in international agreements on trade and biosafety into workable national policy. It is a complex story of selective interpretation, conflict over priorities and politicking at the highest levels of government.
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  Impacts of agricultural research on poverty: findings of an integrated economic and social analysis

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper examines how agricultural technologies influence and are influenced by the diverse livelihood strategies, vulnerability context, relations of gender and power, and other conditions of the poor. It reports findings of a CGIAR research project including seven case studies of different types of agricultural research:
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  Globalisation and the developing countries: emerging strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002

  This on-line book reviews the impact of globalisation on a range of issues, including the effects of changing global rules and regulations on the economies of developing countries in general, and their agricultural sectors in particular. The book divides into four main sections, and includes chapters by various authors.Part I: globalisation from the perspective of the South.

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