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Searching with a thematic focus on Technology and innovation in agriculture, Agriculture and food, Agricultural policy, Biotechnology and GMOs

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  Modern biotechnology and developing-world agriculture

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002

  This essay provides and introduction to agricultural biotechnology in a developing country context. The author looks at issues of food security, consumer acceptance, sectoral change and regulation in the context of advances in genomics and bioinformatics which have led to an increase in the rate and volume of advances in the biotech.
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  USAID and GM food aid

  Greenpeace International, 2002

  This paper is essentially a rebuttal of claims by the head of USAID that environmental groups were "endangering the lives of millions of people in southern Africa by encouraging local governments to reject genetically modified (GM) food aid".
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  To die or not to die: this is the problem

  AgBioWorld Foundation, 2002

  This paper from the AgBioWorld Foundation is a direct response to an earlier paper from the Zambian Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre (KATC) and the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) which challenged the suitability of existing GM technology for Zambian agriculture and supported their Governments position with regard to GM food aid.The authors directly attack the findings of the
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  What is the impact of GMOs on sustainable agriculture in Zambia?

  Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection, Zambia, 2002

  This study argues strongly that the introduction of GM crops to Zambia will have considerable negative effects and negligable benefits for the development of small scale agricutlure on which the country's food security depends.Further the author claims that a concerted campaign of 'propoganda and distortion' has been undertaken by the biotechnology industry to persuade national leaders that GM
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  CIPR final report: integrating intellectual property rights and development policy

  Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002

  This, the final report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights set up by the UK government in 2001 and consisting of members representing a range of views on all aspects of IPRs.The Commission was asked to consider:how national IPR regimes could best be designed to benefit developing countries within the context of international agreements, including TRIPS;how the internat
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  Genetically modified crops in Africa: implications for small farmers

  GRAIN, 2002

  This briefing looks at the push to bring genetically modified (GM) crops and technologies to Africa and shows the implications for farmers in Eastern and Southern Africa. What will the introduction of GM crops mean for Africa and its small farmers in particular?
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  Intellectual property rights in African agriculture: implications for small farmers

  GRAIN, 2002

  This paper looks at the choice facing African policy-makers over which of two opposing models of agricultural R&D to choose to support. One is driven by multinational companies in the North and relies upon private monopolies and genetically modified crops.
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  Agricultural biotechnology, poverty reduction, and food security

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001

  This working paper from the Asian Development Bank examines the risks and benefits of biotechnology in relation to human health, the environment, and Agriculture.
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  Booklet of CGIAR Centre policy instruments, guidelines and statements on genetic resources, biotechnology and intellectual property rights

  Bioversity International, 2001

  Collection of genetic resources biotechnology and IPR related policies produced by Future Harvest Centres and subsequently endorsed by CGIAR members, GRPC and / or the Centre Directors Committee for System-wide adoption.The first section of the booklet concerns the policies and guidelines for managing the in-trust plant genetic resources collections.
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  New enclosures: alternative mechanisms to enhance corporate monopoly and bioserfdom in the 21st century

  Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration formerly RAFI, 2001

  Intellectual property has proved a poor mechanism in corporations battle to monopolise new biotechnologies.

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