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  State transfers to the poor and back: the case of the food for work programme in Andhra Pradesh

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper discusses the shortcomings of the Food for Work programme in Andhra Pradesh to provide employment to drought-affected poor people.
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  The new bioeconomy: industrial and environmental biotechnology in developing countries

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2001

  This paper discusses some of the most important features of the emergence of industrial and environmental biotechnology as a growing segment of the new bioeconomy.Conclusions of the paper include:the wider adoption of these technologies will depend largely on the extent to which global economic governance provides adequate space for the emerging technologiesthe importance of a more
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  Voices from the south: the third world debunks corporate myths on genetically engineered crops

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2003

  This paper discusses the common myths regarding genetically engineered crops, from a southern perspective.
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  A conceptual framework for national agricultural, rural development, and food security strategies and policies

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This paper discusses a conceptual framework, developed by the Food and Agricultural Organization, to address food security through agricultural and rural development, and direct actions to enhance immediate access to food.Highlights of the paper include:all relevant parties should be involved in the debate on the definitions of the conceptual framework objectives, helping to rally the p
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  Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: the international regulation of modern biotechnology

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper discusses the issues surrounding the international governance and regulation of modern biotechnology.Principal conclusions of the paper include:the disciplines imposed by the relevant WTO Agreements underpin and shape the biotech regulation debate both internationally and nationallythere remains a degree of uncertainty and unpredictability regarding the scope for countrie
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  Copenhagen Consensus: hunger and malnutrition

  Copenhagen Consensus, 2004

  This paper examines the economic aspects of chronic hunger and malnutrition arguing that better nutrition can both reduce the economic drain on poor societies and help them become wealthier by increasing individuals' productivity.The paper begins be reviewing the scale and nature of the problem, for example by examining the numbers of people being affected as well as the socio-economic breakdow
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  Can GM-technologies help the poor?: the impact of Bt Cotton in Makhathini Flats and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  GRAIN, 2003

  This paper reports on a two-year survey of one hundred smallholder farmers in South Africa who adopted Bt cotton, from 1999-2000.The results of the survey include:higher cotton yields and lower chemical costs outweighed higher Bt cotton seed costs, giving higher gross marginsonce labour savings are taken into account, the Bt cotton adopters were considerably more efficient than thos
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  Bt Cotton and small-scale farmers in Makhathini, South Africa: a story of debt, dependency, and dicey economics

  GRAIN, 2004

  This paper discusses the issues surrounding the adoption of Bt cotton in Makhathini, South Africa.
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  Ensuring safe use of biotechnology: key challenges

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2002

  This article identifies short and long-term challenges to biosafety governance in India.
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  Prospects for adopting system of rice intensification in Sri Lanka: a socioeconomic assessment

  International Water Management Institute, 2003

  There is increasing worldwide interest in assessing the potential for maintaining or increasing rice yields by reducing or eliminating the use of chemicals and by decreasing irrigation requirements, but can this be done? This paper considers the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) first developed in Madagascar and now being tested in many countries, as an example of such an approach.

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