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  High Commissioner’s expert group on human rights and biotechnology

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2002

  This UNHCHR document argues that a human rights-based approach to biotechnology should view a particular issue from the perspective of the rights and obligations imposed by international human rights norms.
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  Public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology

  Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 2001

  This edition of the Biotechnology and Development Monitor surveys the perceptions and expectations that have developed in the public domain on agricultural gene technology in recent years. Authors from different parts of the world analyse the factors that have influenced public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology as applied to agriculture in their own countries over the last 25 years.
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  Agri-food research: participation and the public good

  Food Ethics Council, 2004

  What should be the role of participatory processes in publicly funded research on food and agriculture? What are the different experiences of participation in science and policy?
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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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  Agricultural biotechnology, trade and the developing countries

  AgBioForum, 2000

  This paper discusses issues of biotechnology and trade in relation to the economic and social development of developing countries.The paper particularly highlights:developing countries and their low-income people could benefit significantly from the development and use of modern biotechnology in agriculture within a proper biosafety regimeinternational agreements on biosafety, biodi
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  Benefits from Bt Cotton use by smallholder farmers in South Africa

  AgBioForum, 2001

  This paper describes the results of research conducted in the Makhathini region, Kwazulu Natal, Republic of South Africa, designed to explore the economic benefits of the adoption of Bt cotton for smallholders.The paper highlights the following points:Bt cotton had higher yields than non-Bt varieties and generated greater revenueseed costs for Bt cotton were double those of non-Bt,
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  On science and precaution in the management of technological risk

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2001

  This paper discusses the debate over the relative merits of scientific and precautionary approaches to the management of technological risk.The paper highlights the following points:rather than seeing ‘precaution’ as being in tension with ‘science based regulation’, the key elements of a precautionary approach are entirely consistent with sound scientific practice in responding to intra
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  SARL Prajateerpu e-forum on participatory processes for policy change

  Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme, IIED, 2002

  The release of the report of the Prajateerpu scenario workshop and citizen jury experiment in Andhra Pradesh, India ignited an international debate over the use of participatory approaches to inform and influence policy from below.
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  Accessing modern science: policy and institutional options for agricultural biotechnology in developing countries

  Eldis Document Store, 2001

  The paper highlights the complexity of the challenge in developing new forms of collaboration between a variety of actors in the biotechnology area in developing countries, including, national research systems with very diverse capacities in biotechnology, international research centres, local private R&D companies, global life science companies, and advanced research institutes in both industrial
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  Governing the GM crop revolution: policy choices for developing countries

  2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000

  This paper introduces a system for classifying policy choices toward GM crops in the areas of intellectual property rights, food safety, biosafety, trade, and public research investment.

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