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Searching with a thematic focus on Technology and innovation in agriculture, Agriculture and food, Biotechnology and GMOs, Biotechnology and GMOs governance, Governance in South Africa

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    GMO governance in Africa

    The Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development, The Open University, 2006
    This paper examines issues of legitimation and harmonisation of biosafety systems in GMO governance in Africa. It draws on case studies from emerging regulatory systems in Ethiopia and South Africa, which offer contrasting examples that evolved under different historical and socio-economic conditions.
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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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    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,