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  Optimizing investment in agricultural research, or the quest for prosperity

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2003

  This paper examines in detail the issue of underinvestment in public agricultural research and development (R&D) by introducing an economic model of the process of selecting R&D projects in order to test various theories for why this underinvestment has occurred.The most important findings of the model are the following:under the assumption of full information and economic rationality,
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  The fight to feed the world

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  SciDev.Net summary (linking to the full article) of a Science editorial looking at how scientists are gearing up to challenges of securing food production in developing countries in the coming years.The article reveals both good news and bad. On the positive side, the World Bank and other big donor agencies have been galvanised into action.
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  The farm scale evaluations of spring-sown genetically modified crops

  Royal Society, 2003

  This Royal Society study of the impact of GMCs reveals significant differences in the effect on biodiversity when managing genetically modified herbicide-tolerant (GMHT) crops as compared to conventional varieties.
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  Engineering nutrition: GM crops for global justice?

  Food Ethics Council, 2003

  This report challenges the dominant view of the scientific establishment that the future of agriculture lies with genetic modification technologies.
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  Banning pesticides: about time?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The pesticide industry’s global Safe Use campaign has reportedly produced a dramatic decline in pesticide-related health and environmental problems in Guatemala. Does the campaign live up to its claims or is it undermining effective pesticide hazard reduction?
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  Poisonous pesticides: reducing risks for developing country farmers

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Pesticides poison tens of millions of people in the developing world each year. Is this because farmers do not follow instructions? Could dangerous pesticide use be reduced without affecting food security? How can regulatory frameworks be tightened and safety awareness increased?
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  De-romanticising indigenous knowledge: challenges from Egypt

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Is there really such a thing as community indigenous knowledge – a shared understanding of what makes something a resource and how it is valued? Or are we clinging to naïve notions of ‘pristine’ truths, the relics of a ‘purer’ past which we allegedly need to unlock in order to enhance development?
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  Pro-poor irrigation management transfer?

  International Water Management Institute, 2003

  This briefing argues that Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) can contribute to rural poverty by aggravating existing inequities within irrigation schemes or introducing new ones.
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  Capacity building for sustainable development: an overview of UNEP environmental capacity development initiatives.

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2002

  This UNEP guide aims to highlight how capacity building is a central element of its activities particularly in it’s approach to assisting the sustainable development of developing countries and countries with economies in transition.The guide gives selected examples of capacity development taken from the past ten years since Rio and tries to project into the next decade, after Jo'burg.
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  Conservation and use of coffee genetic resources in Ethiopia: challenges and opportunities in the context of current global situations

  Global Development Network, 2003

  Coffee is the second most important exported commodity on earth, next to oil, so what are the appropriate management options in ensuring this genetic resource is sustained? This paper seeks to answer this question by studying the case of Ethiopia, making the assumption that managing the remaining forest as gene reserve is taken as the appropriate management option to achieve this aim.

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