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  Ten reasons why biotechnology will not ensure food security, protect the environment or reduce poverty in the developing world

  AgBioForum, 2001

  This paper details ten reasons as to why agricultural biotechnology will not ensure food security, reduce poverty or protect the environment in developing countries.Key highlights of the paper include:the unfounded Malthusian view that hunger is due to a gap between food production and human population growththat current bio-engineered crops are not designed to increase yields for p
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  Can GM-technologies help the poor?: the impact of Bt Cotton in Makhathini Flats and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  GRAIN, 2003

  This paper reports on a two-year survey of one hundred smallholder farmers in South Africa who adopted Bt cotton, from 1999-2000.The results of the survey include:higher cotton yields and lower chemical costs outweighed higher Bt cotton seed costs, giving higher gross marginsonce labour savings are taken into account, the Bt cotton adopters were considerably more efficient than thos
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  Bt Cotton and small-scale farmers in Makhathini, South Africa: a story of debt, dependency, and dicey economics

  GRAIN, 2004

  This paper discusses the issues surrounding the adoption of Bt cotton in Makhathini, South Africa.
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  Ensuring safe use of biotechnology: key challenges

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2002

  This article identifies short and long-term challenges to biosafety governance in India.
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  High Commissioner’s expert group on human rights and biotechnology

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2002

  This UNHCHR document argues that a human rights-based approach to biotechnology should view a particular issue from the perspective of the rights and obligations imposed by international human rights norms.
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  Public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology

  Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 2001

  This edition of the Biotechnology and Development Monitor surveys the perceptions and expectations that have developed in the public domain on agricultural gene technology in recent years. Authors from different parts of the world analyse the factors that have influenced public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology as applied to agriculture in their own countries over the last 25 years.
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  Agri-food research: participation and the public good

  Food Ethics Council, 2004

  What should be the role of participatory processes in publicly funded research on food and agriculture? What are the different experiences of participation in science and policy?
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  Agricultural biotechnology, trade and the developing countries

  AgBioForum, 2000

  This paper discusses issues of biotechnology and trade in relation to the economic and social development of developing countries.The paper particularly highlights:developing countries and their low-income people could benefit significantly from the development and use of modern biotechnology in agriculture within a proper biosafety regimeinternational agreements on biosafety, biodi
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  Benefits from Bt Cotton use by smallholder farmers in South Africa

  AgBioForum, 2001

  This paper describes the results of research conducted in the Makhathini region, Kwazulu Natal, Republic of South Africa, designed to explore the economic benefits of the adoption of Bt cotton for smallholders.The paper highlights the following points:Bt cotton had higher yields than non-Bt varieties and generated greater revenueseed costs for Bt cotton were double those of non-Bt,
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  On science and precaution in the management of technological risk

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2001

  This 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 intra

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