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  Public participation and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2003

  This report summarises a study of the ways in which different countries have sought to promote and facilitate public awareness and participation in the design and implementation of their national biosafety frameworks (NBFs).
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  Terminator five years later

  Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration formerly RAFI, 2003

  This edition of "Communique" looks at the current policy situation with relation to the development and use of 'Terminator' technology in GM seed varieties.
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  Biotechnology and the issues interconnected with and through it

  Biowatch South Africa, 2002

  This paper takes a step back from the policy issues surrounding biotechnology and its role in development to present a broad discussion of the biotechnology sector and its implications.The paper argues that if biotechnology is to develop usefully, the risks involved with it should be prevented.
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  Biotechnology and biodiversity: key policy issues for South Africa

  Biowatch South Africa, 2000

  This paper from Biowatch describes some of the potential effects of genetic modification on biodiversity and the environment, within both the global and South African context. Background information about the nature and extent of the biotechnology industry is presently followed by a description of the potential risks and effects of biotechnology on biodiversity.
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  Assessing the impact of using participatory research and gender/stakeholder analysis

  Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program, CGIAR, 2000

  Collection of papers from a conference held in 1998 in Quito, Ecuador looking at methods for assessing the impact of using participatory research and gender/stakeholder analysis.Papers are introduced by a conceptual overview, and include:Farmer Participation and Formal-Led Participatory Plant Breeding Programs: Types of Impact to Date by Eva Weltzien R, Louise Sperling, Margaret E Smith
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  Integration of indigenous knowledge into land-use planning for the communal rangelands of Namibia

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 2001

  The paper argues that the indigenous knowledge of the Herero could provide the basis for better land-use policy and user rights in the communal lands of Namibia.This short article:reviews recent academic literaturelooks at the historical and legal backgound to land management in Namibiareports in 2 village field studies
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  Policy, national regulation, and international standards for GM foods

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  The adoption of biotechnology and the introduction of GM foods into the international marketplace has exacerbated an already difficult area of trade policy. As biotechnology increases productive capacity in various products, it also increases the need to trade. But diverging national regulations are increasingly impeding trade in these products creating market distortions.
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  Where there is no data: participatory approaches to veterinary epidemiology in pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2002

  This paper provides an overview of recent experiences with the use of participatory approaches and methods to understand livestock diseases in pastoral areas. These experiences include the emergence of participatory epidemiology as a distinct branch of veterinary epidemiology, and most recently, studies on the validity and reliability of participatory methods.
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  Benefits and shortcomings of intellectual property rights for small scale farmers in developing countries

  Agricultural Information and Documentation Service for Development Cooperation, 2002

  Rafael Mariano from the Peasant Movement of the Philippines presents his case arguing that intellectual property rights, and more broadly science, have been co-opted by business interests (supported by the US) to strengthen their control over agricultural production and to open up new markets at the expense of small farmers and developing countries.In particular he argues: The 1991 Act
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  Biotechnology and sustainable livelihoods: findings and recommendations of an international consultation

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002

  This paper, using a sustainable livelihoods framework, analyses various approaches and discusses case studies regarding the socioeconomic impact of biotechnology on the poor in developing countries.

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