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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Biotechnology and GMOs in South Africa

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  Contentious politics, contentious knowledges: mobilising against GM crops in India, South Africa and Brazil

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper looks at how knowledge is deployed and science constructed in different spaces of engagement activists use in campaigning against GM crops in India, South Africa and Brazil. It highlights strategies and tactics used by anti-GM activist networks across seven ‘spaces’ for citizen engagement.
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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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  Bt cotton in South Africa: the case of the Makhathini farmers

  Biowatch South Africa, 2005

  This article summarises the results of five years of research undertaken by Biowatch South Africa on the socio-economic impact of Bt cotton on the small-scale farmers of the Makhathini Flats, in northern KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
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  Bt cotton in KwaZulu Natal: technological triumph but institutional failure

  GRAIN, 2008

  This paper explores the technological triumphs and institutional failures of Bt cotton amongst small-scale farmers in the Makhatini Flats of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
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  Bt maize for small scale farmers: a case study

  2005

  The role of biotechnology in small-holder agricultural systems has been the subject of much debate in South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region as a whole.
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  Three seasons of subsistence insect-resistant maize in South Africa: have smallholders benefited?

  AgBioForum, 2006

  This paper examines whether smallholder farmers who adopted insect-resistant (Bt) varieties of white maize have benefited from planting Bt over the last three seasons.
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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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