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Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 3:The international dimension and its interdependencies with the local context

Innovations and new plant varieties are of great importance to increase farmers’ income and promote wealth creation in general, unfortunately purchasing new inputs or labor is often a drawback that constrain farmers’ choices and preferences. Embedding GURTs are not the only steps that the innovators are considering to protect intellectual property rights in agriculture. The ... Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 3:The international dimension and its interdependencies with the local context

04/04
2004 4mn
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Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 2: The reality of India – poison can be sweet too!

Cruising around the mustard fields of Rajastan, discovering the enchanted rice fields of Karnataka or finding your way through the jungle in the hilly north west part of Tamil Nadu is indeed a remarkable experience. India possesses a phenomenal variety of land types and climate zones with vast farming areas surrounded at times by high ... Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 2: The reality of India – poison can be sweet too!

03/04
2004 6mn
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Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 1: Introduction

Two popular assumptions justify the introduction of Genetically Modified (GM) seeds in agriculture. One is demographics, and especially the expectation that according to current rates of population growth in the poorest areas of the world by 2020 not enough food will be produced to feed everyone on the planet. The other is global warming as ... Modern Biotechnology in LDCs: governing innovation in India’s agricultural markets – Part 1: Introduction

02/04
2004 3mn
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International disputes over disaster responsibility: whose law is better?

There is currently an eminent absence of international governance standards on business across borders. International disputes arise everyday in countries where we do not have access to information and which we know very little about. If we look at the recent collapse of a coal mine in the South-East Russian border it is clear that ... International disputes over disaster responsibility: whose law is better?

23/02
2004 4mn
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Notes from the Road: India between farming biotechnology and computer services

This short piece is just an overview of your correspondent’s long observation and research of the Indian’s science and technology sector. After a month or so of pilgrimage from the fields of Haryana, across the desert of Rajastan, then through the tea leave plantations of Kerala and the catholic state of Goa, there have been ... Notes from the Road: India between farming biotechnology and computer services

06/01
2004 6mn
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