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  Lessons from a green revolution in South Africa

  GRAIN, 2008

  This paper examines the outcome of massive food production programme (MFPP) by the Eastern Cape Department of Agriculture (ECDA) as part of its green revolution strategy. The aim of the program was to increase food production very rapidly and inturn provide food security for the poor households in rural areas.
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  Governing agricultural biotechnology in Africa: building public confidence and capacity for policy-making

  African Centre for Technology Studies, 2008

  This book provides an overview of the potential benefits of agricultural biotechnology in Africa in the context of continuous poor agricultural production and rising food insecurity. The authors draw on research on biotechnology and biosafety policy in three African countries: Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.
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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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  Who benefits from GM crops?

  Friends of the Earth International, 2008

  This paper provides a fact-based assessment of Genetically Modified (GM) crops around the world.
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  Can the poor help GM crops? Technology, representation and cotton in the Makhathini Flats, South Africa

  GRAIN, 2006

  The adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton in South Africa’s Makhathini Flats in 1998 was heralded as a case in which agricultural biotechnology could benefit smallholder farmers, and a model for the rest of the continent to follow.
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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,
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  Bt cotton: benefits for poor farmers?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper questions whether, on the basis of a few favourable studies and a few years' experience, Bt cotton (cotton genetically engineered to express the insecticidal toxin Bacillus Thuringiensis) can be relied upon to produce benefits for poor farmers.The paper identifies a number of implications:the positive results shown by Bt cotton in the first few years are likely to be highly c