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  Genetically modified crops and sustainable poverty alleviation in Sub Saharan Africa: an assessment of current evidence

  Third World Network Africa, 2003

  This paper recasts the debate over biotechnology by empirically evaluating current experiences with genetically modified crops in Africa. The debate is moved from hypothetical risks, to actual results.
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  New genetics, food and agriculture: scientific discoveries, societal dilemmas

  International Council for Science, 2003

  This report presents an overview of the findings of a selection of approximately 50 science-based reviews, published in years 2000-2003, on modern genetics and its applications in food and agriculture and the environment.The purpose of this analysis is to consider what are the issues that concern various societies, and, on the basis of the science underpinning the discoveries in modern genetics
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  The use of genetically modified crops in developing countries

  Nuffield Council on Bioethics, UK, 2003

  This discussion paper is a follow-up to the 1999 Report, Genetically modified crops: the ethical and social issues. Contributed as part of the UK public consultation on GM it aims to assess the potential risks and benefits associated with the use of genetically modified (GM) crops in developing countries in relation to improving food security and economically valuable agriculture.
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  Biotechnology and food security in Africa: some policy and institutional considerations

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2002

  This paper asks how biotechnology can affect food security in Africa. It advices caution in either promoting or opposing biotechnology for its own sake.The paper argues that:no technology by and of itself has internal momentum to create food security for any society of region. It is how the technology is applied and moulded by society that determines its usefulness.
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  GM crops: going against the grain

  ActionAid International, 2003

  This paper asks: Do GM crops help eradicate poverty? Do GM crops meet the needs of poor farmers? Do they threaten basic rights? Do GM crops threaten biodiversity? Do GM crops enhance informed choice and participation for poor people?Conclusion: The widespread adoption of GM crops seems likely to exacerbate the underlying causes of food insecurity, leading to more hungry people, not fewer.
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  Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: the implications for food security in Kenya

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003

  This paper argues that for modern biotechnology research to have long term and wider positive social impact in Kenya, changes in policies and institutions must be implemented to ensure that it benefits the smallholder farmers who make up the majority of Kenya’s population.Critical issues examined include:biosafety food safetyloss of biodiversity IPRsThe report makes
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  Trade in genetically modified food: a survey of empirical studies

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper analyses the current and potential economic impact of GM commodities on world trade.It concludes that: in general, adopters of the more productive GM technologies gain, while non-adopters or GM-critical regions either do not gain at all or only gain some (through changes in world prices), depending on how strongly they segment their markets.
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  ISF view on intellectual property

  International Seed Federation, 2002

  This position paper from the International Seed Federation, an industry body, sets out the position of its members on IP protection for plant breeders and other related issues. ISF members are, not surprisingly, unanimously in favour of a strong IP protection.The federation considers that both ‘sui generis’ and patent style systems are legitimate.
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  Agricultural intensification by smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon: from deforestation to sustainable land use

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  Focusing on smallholders’ decision making, this report presents trade-offs among the key development objectives - environmental sustainability, economic growth, and poverty alleviation - affecting forest use in two settlements in the western Brazilian Amazon.
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  IPRs, biotechnology and food security

  Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002

  This paper examines the development and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs) at the international and national level and the impacts of IPRs on biotechnology, agricultural practices and food security concerns in the context of globalisation.

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