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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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  Situation and prospects for forest conservation and development: FAO State of the World's Forests 1997: Part 1

  State of the World's Forests, FAO, 1999
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  Women and bio-diversity: the role of national museum of Kenya in improving women's participation in conservation (Kioko)

  Women in Global Science and Technology Network, 1999
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  INFOTERRA Thesaurus (3rd edition, being updated to 4th)

  INFOTERRA, 1999
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  Indigenous seed practices for sustainable agriculture

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1994

  A shift to sustainable agriculture (SA) requires fundamental changes to the seed production paradigm. It is important for farmers, particularly those in the Third World, to have control over their seed.
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  Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will, how and when

  Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999

  Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, activists. Many continue to share despite knowing that by withholding this knowledge they could receive pecuniary advantage.
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  Biotechnology in Crops: Issues for the developing world

  Oxfam, 1998

  Overview of issues and actors in the debate on genetically modified crops.
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  Selling Suicide: farming, false promises and genetic engineering in developing countries

  Christian Aid, 1999

  Experience shows that large gaps between rich and poor, ownership of resources concentrated in too few hands, and a food supply based on too few varieties of crops, are the classic preconditions for hunger and famine. New technologies are taking us further down this ill-advised farm track.
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  The socio-political impact of biotechnology in developing countries

  Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project, MSU, 2001

  Assesses the socio-political ramifications of agricultural biotechnology and recombinant genetics in relation to increased food security in developing countriesConcludes that sustainable development and sustainable food security will not be achievable without better governance and a new dimension of solidarity between the rich and the poor of this world, but also not without new technologies su
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  Structural adjustment and the institutional dimensions of agricultural research and development in Brazil: soybeans, wheat and sugar cane

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Structural adjustment, liberalisation and the pressures of technological change are having major impact on the institutional organisation of the agro-industrial sector. In industrialised countries, the private sector is positioned to play the vanguard role in the next generation of agricultural technologies.

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