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    Biotechnology, agriculture, and food security in southern Africa

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005
    This book discusses the outcomes of a multistakeholder initiative on issues of biotechnology resulting from the 2002–2003 southern African food crisis, when a number of countries rejected food aid in the form of genetically modified grain.The initiative aimed at raising awareness, promoting dialogue, and catalysing consensus-building mechanisms to improve the institutions and policies governing
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    Annotated bibliography on the economic and socio-economic impact of agricultural biotechnology in developing countries

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005
    This 112-page document brings together a wide range of assessments of the economic and socio-economic impact of agricultural biotechnology (both GMO and non-GMO) in developing countries.
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    Brazilian agrifood system and modern biotechnology: opportunities and perspectives

    Science and Technology Journal, 2005
    [The full document is only available in Portuguese]This paper argues that whilst modern biotechnology potentially appears as a technological option with great potential for the agrifood Brazilian system, it is facing serious challenges.
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    Golden rice solution to vitamin A deficiency: what lies beneath

    Eldis Document Store, 2005
    This article attempts to find out about the Vitamin A Deficiency, how it affects the human body, the treatment available, the Golden Rice alternative, the risks and doubts attached, nutritional, operational and economic analysis of golden rice, how the cultivation of Genetically Engineered crops going to affect the agriculture sector in developing countries and who is going to benefit from its far
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    Tackling GMO contamination: making segregation and identity preservation a reality

    Friends of the Earth International, 2005
    This report examines several cases of GMO contamination and describes the current experience with segregation and Identity Preserved (IP) systems in North America.
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    Modern food biotechnology, human health and development

    Department of Food Safety, Zoonoses and Foodborne Diseases, World Health Organization, 2005
    Despite a number of national and international initiatives, the use and development of modern food biotechnology remains a controversial global issue. Modern food biotechnology promises a new range of products and processes proclaimed to be for the public good, some related to agricultural benefits others directly or indirectly to health.
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    The role of biotechnology for the characterisation and conservation of crop, forest, animal and fishery genetic resources in developing countries

    Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture, FAO, 2005
    This document is a background paper to an e-forum conference hosted by the FAO Biotechnology Forum (June-July 2005), and considers the use of biotechnology tools in the characterisation and conservation of crop, forest, animal and fishery genetic resources in developing countries.It provides a brief overview of genetic resources for food and agriculture is provided; detailed information regardi
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    USAID: making the world hungry for GM crops

    GRAIN, 2005
    This briefing examines how the US government uses USAID to actively promote GM agriculture, focusing on USAID's major programmes for agricultural biotechnology and the regions where these programmes are most active in parts of Africa and Asia.The briefing highlights that:these USAID programmes are part of a multi-pronged strategy to advance US interests with GM cropsincreasingly the
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    GM crops in India: why open Pandora’s Box?

    Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2004
    This paper provides a critical review of a recently published report from the "Task Force on Application of Biotechnology in Agriculture" (see seperate record) headed by Dr. M.S.
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    Implications of genetically modified food technology policies for Sub-Saharan Africa

    World Bank, 2004
    The first generation of genetically modified (GM) crop varieties sought to increase farmer profitability through cost reductions or higher yields.

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