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  GM crops: biotech agriculture: time to take GM seriously

  Ethical Corporation Online, 2008

  Biotechnology companies assert that genetically modified crops enable better pest control, reduced spraying, safety for non-target species, higher stress tolerance and more consistent yields. In short, the industry believes that green biotechnologies provide a secure and sustainable food and energy solution.
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  Compensation for Ecosystem Services (CES): a catalyst for ecosystem conservation and poverty alleviation?

  InfoResources, 2004

  This document looks at the use of Compensation Ecosystem Services (CES) as a potential catalyst for ecosystem conservation and poverty alleviation. It aims to improve understanding of the concept and also discusses the key challenges faced in implementation of CES.
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  Bunda College of Agriculture

    The college aims to advance and promote knowledge , skills, self-reliance and sound character for:
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  Socio-economic and political concerns for GM foods and biotechnology adoption in the Philippines

  AgBioForum, 2008

  This paper assesses the political and socio-economic concerns surrounding GM foods and bio-technology in the Philippines. It particularly focuses on past experiences and looking at what the future holds for GM in the country.
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  Biofortified crops and biotechnology: a political economy landscape for India

  AgBioForum, 2008

  This paper assesses the political receptivity to bio-fortification in India, especially when it involves genetic engineering. The paper draws on an understanding of political economy of pro-poor policies as well as the political responses to Bt cotton - the only GM crop that has received regulatory approval.
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  Patterns of political response to biofortified varieties of crops produced with different breeding techniques and agronomic traits

  AgBioForum, 2008

  This paper examines the political response to two crops that were nutritionally enhanced through conventional breeding - Quality Protein Maize (QPM) and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes. It also looks at the political response to other food crops - maize, potato, and papaya ,as well as biofortified Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) rice, potatoes, cassava, and sorghum.
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  Biofortified food crops: progress and prospects in developing countries: patterns of political support and pathways to final impact

  AgBioForum, 2008

  This document presents a hypothetical scheme for predicting which bio-fortified food technologies will enjoy greatest political support or opposition and from which actors on the political landscape. It also examines the likely consequences of bio-fortified food crops in terms of actual nutritional impact.
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  Biofortified foods and crops in West Africa: Mali and Burkina Faso

  AgBioForum, 2008

  This article examines the political landscape for the introduction of bio-fortified crops in west Africa. Focusing on Burkina Faso and Mali, it analyses the current state of bio-safety legislation and the political debates regarding genetically modified (GM) crops.
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  Monitoring land cover dynamics in sub-saharan Africa

  European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2006

  Over the last 25 years civil disturbances, drought, population increases and global market pressures have all contributed in direct and indirect ways to a modification of Sub saharan African land cover. 
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  Swaziland: the myth of sustainable plantations

  World Rainforest Movement, 2007

  Swaziland’s timber plantations have been held up as a model of sustainable forestry management, where other plantations around the world are considered to have had negative environmental and social impacts.

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