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  Agricultural biotechnology policy processes in China

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001

  This paper explores the main features of policy and policy processes surrounding agricultural biotechnology in China, traces the emergence of the current situation historically, and identifies potential issues for subsequent research.Findings include:China considers agricultural biotechnology as a primary measure to improve its national food security, raise agricultural productivity, an
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  Making policy in the 'new economy': the case of biotechnology in Karnataka, India

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the new politics of policy making in India, focusing on the biotechnology sector. It traces the origins of the millennium biotechnology policy in Karnataka state in order to expand upon it's central theory that a new style of politics is emerging in response to the changing contexts of the new economy era.
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  Rights and risk: challenging biotechnology policy in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper looks at how a rights based approach can be applied to biotechnology policy. Drawing on the experience of Zimbabwe and other countries in southern Africa, this paper argues that a risk based approach to biotechnology regulation creates an artificial divide between civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights.
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  Biotech firms, biotech politics: negotiating GMOs in India

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper explores the different corporate strategies of firms in the biotech and seed sectors and looks at how they have organised themselves to influence the policy process.The paper suggests the importance of looking at divisions within capital and the political alliances that firms form as a basis for understanding the ways in which policy choices are framed and decisions taken.
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  Seeds in a globalised world: agricultural biotechnology in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper looks at what biotechnology might mean for agricultural and food production systems in Zimbabwe and looks at some of the strategic questions that lie behind decisions to go the GM route in agriculture.Several factors are identified and discussed including:technology choiceissues of technology access and ownershipthe role of new farmers emerging as a result of land ref
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  Public-private partnerships in agricultural research: an analysis of challenges facing industry and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper asks why it is that, whilst public-private partnerships offer potentially important opportunities for pro-poor agricultural research in developing countries, few examples of successful public-private partnerships have come to light.The study hypothesises that the willingness and ability of public agencies and private firms to enter into partnerships are constrained by:fundame
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  Bt cotton benefits, costs and impacts in China

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper provides a follow up study, 2000/1, of the effect of Bt cotton adoption in China, 1999.Main findings include:the production Bt cotton has positive crop yield impacts, shifting the crop yield frontier by nearly 10 percentBt cotton farmers increased their incomes by reducing use of pesticides and labour inputsBt cotton continues to have positive environmental and health
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  Biotechnology policy and regulation in China

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper refutes claims that China has in recent years fundamentally altered its stance on GMOs in response to trade, food safety and environmental biosafety concerns.
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  The effect of WTO and FTAA on agriculture and the rural sector in Latin America

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper examines two alternative versions of further trade liberalisation; one representing free trade world wide, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the other a Western hemisphere free trade bloc, Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
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  Philippines fisheries in crisis: a framework for management

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This book analyses fisheries in the Philippines, arguing that there is an urgent need for better management and protection of the fisheries, which contribute substantially to the economy, food security and livelihood of many Filipinos.The book looks at the causes of overfishing in relation to the biology and ecology of the stocks, and how fisheries operate in their ocean environment.

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