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On science and precaution in the management of technological risk
European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2001This paper discusses the debate over the relative merits of scientific and precautionary approaches to the management of technological risk.The paper highlights the following points:rather than seeing ‘precaution’ as being in tension with ‘science based regulation’, the key elements of a precautionary approach are entirely consistent with sound scientific practice in responding to intraDocumentSARL Prajateerpu e-forum on participatory processes for policy change
Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme, IIED, 2002The release of the report of the Prajateerpu scenario workshop and citizen jury experiment in Andhra Pradesh, India ignited an international debate over the use of participatory approaches to inform and influence policy from below.DocumentAccessing modern science: policy and institutional options for agricultural biotechnology in developing countries
Eldis Document Store, 2001The paper highlights the complexity of the challenge in developing new forms of collaboration between a variety of actors in the biotechnology area in developing countries, including, national research systems with very diverse capacities in biotechnology, international research centres, local private R&D companies, global life science companies, and advanced research institutes in both industrialDocumentGoverning the GM crop revolution: policy choices for developing countries
2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000This paper introduces a system for classifying policy choices toward GM crops in the areas of intellectual property rights, food safety, biosafety, trade, and public research investment.DocumentBT cotton in China
Greenpeace International, 2002This paper discusses the issues surrounding BT cotton in China. BT cotton is the main genetically modified crop variety in large scale production in China. Recent research shows that BT cotton is effective in controlling the primary pest of cotton.DocumentTrips with everything? Intellectual property and the farming world
Food Ethics Council, 2002This report briefly outlines some general issues arising in intellectual property (IP), in addition to discussing the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in the World Trade Organization.DocumentIntellectual property rights and concentration in agricultural biotechnology
Cornell University Library, 2003This paper explores the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and structural change in the agricultural biotechnology industry.DocumentAgricultural biotechnology: risks and opportunities for developing country food security
2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000This paper provides a substantial input into the debate on the role of modern agricultural biotechnology in developing countries.DocumentAgricultural biotechnology: meeting the needs of the poor?
Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2004This annual FAO State of Food and Agriculture report attempts to unravel the contrasting views on agricultural biotechnology as a tool to address food insecurity and malnutrition in developing countries.DocumentInnovation and policy process: case of transgenic sweet potato in Kenya
Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002Biotechnology is being integrated into the existing science and technology policy process in Kenya. This process is embedded in the country's history of agricultural development, characterised by conventional technology, public goods research and centralised and hierarchical organisation.Pages