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    New technologies and the global race for knowledge

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999
    The recent great strides in technology present tremendous opportunities for human developmenbut achieving that potential depends on how technology is used.
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    Failed Magic or Social Context?: Market Liberalization and the Rural Poor in Malawi

    Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1996
    One of the key questions in the debates swirling around structural adjustment programs in Africa is their effects on the poor. Have these programs "benefited ... the rural poor disproportionately", as concluded in Adjustment in Africa (World Bank 1994)? The answer for rural families studied over a period of years in Malawi is no.
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    Growth is good for the poor

    Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000
    This paper investigates the link between income of the poor and overall income (per capita GDP).
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    Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management: a conceptual framework

    CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 1998
    Explores how the institutions of property rights and collective action play a particularly important role in the application of technologies for agricultural and natural resource management.Technologies with long time frames tend to require tenure security to provide sufficient incentives for adoption, while those that operate on a large spatial scale will require collective action to coordinat
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    The environmental and social impacts of economic liberalization on corn production in Mexico

    Oxfam, 2001
    Examines Mexico’s effort to liberalise and “modernise” its agricultural sector, and in particular its domestic production of corn.Conclusions:liberalisation has failed to achieve the environmental and social improvements it promised.
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    Plant variety protection to feed Africa?: Rhetoric versus reality

    GRAIN, 1999
    The Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) claim the introduction of plant variety protection (a form of patent law) will contribute to food security, sustainable agriculture, and the protection of the environment and of biodiversity.
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    Blast, biotech and big business: implications of corporate strategies on rice research in Asia

    GRAIN, 2000
    The rice blast disease and industry’s approaches to dealing with it provide a clear example of how corporate research and development (R&D) strategies are diverging from the needs and means of farmers, particularly in the poorer countries of South and Southeast Asia.
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    ISAAA in Asia: promoting corporate profits in the name of the poor

    GRAIN, 2000
    The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) is one of the most focused promoters of gene technologies in Asia. Through the formation and support of key local elites, ISAAA is helping carry out an agenda set by transnational corporations (TNCs), in the name of Asia’s rural poor.
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    Grains of delusion: golden rice seen from the ground

    GRAIN, 2001
    'Golden rice' is a genetically modified rice engineered to contain vitamin A or its precursor, beta-carotene. Monsanto was quick to jump on the humanitarian bandwagon by announcing royalty-free licenses for any of its technologies used to further the development of the rice.
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    Sui generis rights: from opposing to complementary approaches

    Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 1998
    This article provides an integrated analysis of the different concerning the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

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