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  Organic agriculture and poverty reduction in Asia: China and India focus

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2005

  The primary goal of this report is to enable a better understanding of organic agriculture in Asia, particularly India and China, and to clarify how organics can serve or hinder poor, small farmers and rural communities.
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  Bio-intensive farming system: an alternative approach to address poverty and livelihoods concerns

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  This article explains the rise of rural impoverishment and marginalisation in Nepal as a function of the effects of globalisation, open market economic policies and inappropriate development policies.
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  Biotechnology, agriculture, and food security in southern Africa

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This book discusses the outcomes of a multistakeholder initiative on issues of biotechnology resulting from the 2002–2003 southern African food crisis, when a number of countries rejected food aid in the form of genetically modified grain.The initiative aimed at raising awareness, promoting dialogue, and catalysing consensus-building mechanisms to improve the institutions and policies governing
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  Annotated bibliography on the economic and socio-economic impact of agricultural biotechnology in developing countries

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This 112-page document brings together a wide range of assessments of the economic and socio-economic impact of agricultural biotechnology (both GMO and non-GMO) in developing countries.
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  Brazilian agrifood system and modern biotechnology: opportunities and perspectives

  Science and Technology Journal, 2005

  [The full document is only available in Portuguese]This paper argues that whilst modern biotechnology potentially appears as a technological option with great potential for the agrifood Brazilian system, it is facing serious challenges.
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  Understanding the indigenous knowledge and information systems of pastoralists in Eritrea

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2003

  This comprehensive study aims to contribute to the definition of demand-led communication and advisory services aimed at pastoralists in Eritrea.
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  Seed laws

  GRAIN, 2005

  This special edition of GRAIN’s Seedling magazine brings together a number of articles examining current shifts and developments in seed laws in different parts of the world.
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  Golden rice solution to vitamin A deficiency: what lies beneath

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  This article attempts to find out about the Vitamin A Deficiency, how it affects the human body, the treatment available, the Golden Rice alternative, the risks and doubts attached, nutritional, operational and economic analysis of golden rice, how the cultivation of Genetically Engineered crops going to affect the agriculture sector in developing countries and who is going to benefit from its far
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  Tackling GMO contamination: making segregation and identity preservation a reality

  Friends of the Earth International, 2005

  This report examines several cases of GMO contamination and describes the current experience with segregation and Identity Preserved (IP) systems in North America.
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  Modern food biotechnology, human health and development

  Department of Food Safety, Zoonoses and Foodborne Diseases, World Health Organization, 2005

  Despite a number of national and international initiatives, the use and development of modern food biotechnology remains a controversial global issue. Modern food biotechnology promises a new range of products and processes proclaimed to be for the public good, some related to agricultural benefits others directly or indirectly to health.

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