GM Crops and the future of food and farming

FrankenThursday wants you to study more about GM issues and this journal we got at Eldis is just perfect 🙂 to arm you with insights and facts about the interplay of GM on the issues of food and farming. A good read most def.
Download the PDF here….
Articles included:

Diversity in international biosafety regulation: MacKenzie, R.
From risks to rights in southern Africa: Mohamed Katerere, J.
Bt cotton: benefits for poor farmers?: Glover, D.
IPRs, biotechnology and development: Yamin, F.
Regulating biotechnology: Newell, P.
Corporate dominance and agricultural biotechnology: Glover, D.
The Chinese biotechnology experience: Keeley, J.
Biotechnology for Kenya: Odame, H., Kameri-Mbote, P. and Wafula, D.

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Rebecca Nesbit says:

May 11, 2011 at 8:59 pm

Thanks for that. So many different arguments to consider – I actually think it’s the social implications that concern me the most. I’ve been blogging about one of the issues here:
http://thesciencesays.southernfriedscience.com/?p=460

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