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Searching with a thematic focus on Technology and innovation in agriculture, Agriculture and food, Agricultural biodiversity and natural resource management, Biotechnology and GMOs

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  Tracing policy connections: the politics of knowledge in the Green Revolution and biotechnology eras in India

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper compares policy making in the "Green Revolution" and "biotechnology" eras to explore the dynamic interaction of global and more local knowledge about agriculture, food and rural development.The paper argues that the biotechnology era is unquestionably different from the Green Revolution, in a number of key respects: the nature and complexity of policy narratives associated wi
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  Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: development of IPR regime in India with reference to agricultural biotechnology

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper looks at debates over the evolution of the IPRs regime in India as it relates to agricultural biotechnology.
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  Rights and risk: challenging biotechnology policy in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper looks at how a rights based approach can be applied to biotechnology policy. Drawing on the experience of Zimbabwe and other countries in southern Africa, this paper argues that a risk based approach to biotechnology regulation creates an artificial divide between civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights.
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  Contexts for regulation: GMOs in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper looks at the regulation of biotechnology in Zimbabwe.
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  Seeds in a globalised world: agricultural biotechnology in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper looks at what biotechnology might mean for agricultural and food production systems in Zimbabwe and looks at some of the strategic questions that lie behind decisions to go the GM route in agriculture.Several factors are identified and discussed including:technology choiceissues of technology access and ownershipthe role of new farmers emerging as a result of land ref
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  Biotechnology policy and regulation in China

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper refutes claims that China has in recent years fundamentally altered its stance on GMOs in response to trade, food safety and environmental biosafety concerns.
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  The biotech developmental state?: investigating the Chinese gene revolution

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper looks at how and why China has pursued research on agricultural biotechnology within the public sector, in contrast with other parts of the world where the private sector has been dominant. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of science-policy networks in promoting a biotechnology discourse.
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  The profits of famine: Southern Africa's long decade of hunger

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2002

  This article explores the causes of famine and chronic malnutrition in Southern Africa.
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  The adoption and impact of agricultural biotechnology innovations in South Africa

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2002

  South Africa is one of the few developing countries and probably the only one in Africa that has adopted some new biotechnology inputs, largely maize and cotton seeds, but what research is being performed to investigate the effects?
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  BT cotton in South Africa: adoption and the impact on farm incomes amongst small-scale and large scale farmers

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2002

  South Africa is one of few developing countries, and the only one in Africa that has adopted genetically modified crops for commercial production, so why has this policy been pursued, and with what effects?

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