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  GMO governance in Africa

  The Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development, The Open University, 2006

  This paper examines issues of legitimation and harmonisation of biosafety systems in GMO governance in Africa. It draws on case studies from emerging regulatory systems in Ethiopia and South Africa, which offer contrasting examples that evolved under different historical and socio-economic conditions.
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  Farmers’ organizations and agricultural innovation: case studies from Benin, Rwanda and Tanzania

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2006

  Over the last decade, Sub-Saharan African countries have embarked on agricultural sector reforms, resulting in changing roles for the public and private sectors.
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  Embedding research in society: development assistance options for supporting agricultural innovation in a global knowledge economy

  United Nations University Institute for New technologies, 2008

  The emergence of a globalised knowledge economy, and the contemporary views of innovation capacity that this trend enables and informs, provides a new context in which development assistance to agricultural research and development needs to be considered.
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  The future control of food: a guide to international negotiations and rules on intellectual property, biodiversity and food security

  International Development Research Centre, 2008

  In today's world, access to food is highly, and unacceptably, uneven. There is massive overproduction and over-consumption, yet millions experience scarcity and hunger. This book looks at some of the forces and rules shaping the food system and who has control over it.
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  Patterns of political response to biofortified varieties of crops produced with different breeding techniques and agronomic traits

  AgBioForum, 2008

  This paper examines the political response to two crops that were nutritionally enhanced through conventional breeding - Quality Protein Maize (QPM) and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes. It also looks at the political response to other food crops - maize, potato, and papaya ,as well as biofortified Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) rice, potatoes, cassava, and sorghum.
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  Measures of impact of science and technology in India: agriculture and rural development

  MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2008

  The revolutions in agriculture, health and education witnessed during the last century were mostly the products of public research supported by governments and philanthropic institutions. Recently, however, there has been a shift away from public research toward commercially profitable research supported by the private sector and protected by intellectual property rights (IPR).
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  The World Bank’s WDR 2008 agriculture for development: response from a slow trade-sound farming perspective

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2008

  For the first time in 25 years, the World Bank’s annual Development Report  (WDR 2008) is dedicated to agriculture. This review of the WDR 2008 is written from the perspective of a recent report, 'Slow trade - sound farming: a multilateral framework for sustainable markets in agriculture', which was produced as an outcome of the EcoFair Trade Dialogue project.
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  Farmer First Revisited: workshop papers

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2007

  Over the past two decades, the Farmer First perspective has provided a powerful critique of the conventional organisation and application of agricultural R&D, with its emphasis on transfer of technology models.
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  World Development Report 2008: agriculture for development

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2007

  Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. This year’s edition of the World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) highlights the importance of agriculture for achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
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  Supporting local innovation for rural development: analysis and review of five Innovation Support Funds

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2007

  Innovations Support Funds (ISFs) can play an important role realising the under-utilised potential of local innovations for development and rural poverty reduction.

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