September 2004

• Japanese Controversies over Transgenic Crop Regulation (Science)

• SA Patently Failing to Cash in on Research (Business Day, Johannesburg)

• Food: Quantity and Quality (The Accra Daily Mail)

August 2004

• Africans Wrestle With Grim Choice, GM Crops - Adapt Or Starve In Africa (Scoop Media via SciDev.Net)

• World Food Prize Winner M.S. Swaminathan Says Insurance Must for GM Crops (Business Line)

• Enriched Rice a Distant Dream for India (Indo-Asian News Service)

• Genetically Modified Crops: A Decade of Failure, 1994-2004 (FOEI Website)

• Study Discovers Iron-Rich Rice That Can Combat Anaemia (The Nation, Thailand)

• Biotech Outsourcing - the Next Big Wave (The Times of India)

• Panel Sees No Unique Risk From Genetic Engineering (The New York Times)

• Report Urges More Extensive Review of Biotech Crops (AP)

• Composition of Altered Food Products, Not Method Used to Create Them, Should Be Basis for Federal Safety Assessment (National Academies)

July 2004

• GM Foods: Kenya inherits a new baggage of prejudices (The Eastern Standard)

• Africa urged to double support for agricultural research (SciDev.Net)

• African scientists need more bioinformatics training (Scidev.net)

• No quick fix to Africa's food problems

June 2004

• Biotechnology Applications in Food Processing: Can Developing Countries Benefit? (FAO Website)

• The Economic Impacts of Biotechnology-Based Technological Innovations (FAO Website)

• Scientific debate finds new home in bars and cafés

• Revolutionizing Biotechnology Through Agriculture (AgBios.com)

25 May 2004

• Narrow Path for New Biotech Food Crops (The New York Times)

• Journals need more input from poor countries 

• Arab science 'needs more electronic databases'

• A Call for a Gene Revolution (The New York Times)

• Europe's Okay for GM Corn Sparks Row Over Democracy, Safeguards (Agence France Presse)

18 May 2004

23 April 2004

o Pew Initiative Report Examines Regulatory Review Process for Future Ag Biotech Products (Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology)

o USDA and the Peterkin Papers (Tech Central Station)

o To Reach the Poor-- Results for the ISNAR-IFPRI Next Harvest Study on Genetically Modified Crops, Public Research, and Policy Implications (IFPRIWebsite)

o The Difficulties of Defining the Term "GM" (Science)

 

22 March 2004

o Research at a Glance: Biotechnology and Genetic Resource Policies (IFPRI Website)

o Cheaper GM Seeds Could Boost Adoption, Farm Benefits and Company Profits: The Case of Bt Cotton in Argentina (CropBiotech Brief)

o Regulating Transgenic Crops: A Comparative Analysis of Different Regulatory Processes (Transgenic Research)

30 January 2004

o Integrated, Redundant Approach Best Way to Biologically Confine Genetically Engineered Organisms (The National Academies' Website)

23 January 2004

o American Patent Policy, Biotechnology, and African Agriculture: The Case for Policy Change (RFF Website)

15 January 2004

o Regulating Biotechnology for the Poor? (Institute of Development Studies, UK)

o The Economic Status and Performance of Plant Biotechnology in 2003: Adoption, Research, and Development in the United States (Council for Biotechnology Information)

o Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries: Challenges for Development Aid (Danish Board of Technology)

o The Use of Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries (Nuffield Council on Bioethics)

o GM Straw Could Increase Livestock Production (Crop Biotech Update)

06 January 2004

o Resource Notification: Agricultural Research and Poverty Reduction

o Agronomics and Sustainability of Transgenic Cotton in Argentina (AgBioForum; ATH:Matin Qaim, Eugenio J. Cap, and Alain de Janvry)

o Policy Briefings Series 'Democratising Biotechnology: Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries' (IDS, UK)

6 December 2003

o Biotechnology for Africa? (Dominic Glover, IDS)

14 November 2003

o GM Crops? Coexistence & Liability (AEBC)

o The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2003 (FAO)

o Global Review of Commercialized Transgenic Crops: 2002 Feature: Bt Maize (ISAAA Website)

o University-Industry Relationships: Framing the Issues for Academic Reseach in Agricultural Biotechnology (Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology)

o Insect Resistance to Insect Resistance (Nature Biotechnology)

o Scientists Called to Look Beyond the Lab (ISP Service News Agency)

10 November 2003

o New book "Dangerous Liaisons? When Cultivated Plants Mate With Their Wild Relatives" (Johns Hopkins University Press)

o GM Battle in Danger of Trampling Africa (Public Agenda, Accra)

o Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research

o Scientists to Study Indian Bt Cotton Crop Failure (The Times of India)

o Empirical Analysis of Transcriptional Activity in the Arabdopsis Genome (Science)

o Impacts of Agricultural Research on Poverty: Findings of an Integrated Economic and Social Analysis (IFPRI Website)

o Consumers Value GM Foods that Directly Benefit Them, Says Purdue Study (ASCRIBE)

o A New Green Revolution for Africa? (UCA Website)

o Agriculture and the Developing World (Science)

o UK's Farm Scale Evaluations of GM Crops Published  (The Royal Society)

13 October 2003

o GM: Africa's Opportunity (Open Democracy Website)

o Genetically Modified Crops and Sustainable Poverty Alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa (ISIS Website)

o Resurrecting Hope: Drought Tolerant Crops (Science in Africa

o Market Opportunities For African Agriculture: An Examination Of Demand-Side Constraints On Agricultural Growth (IFPRI)

29 September 2003

o Graingen releases drought tolerant wheat variety called Rees using "innovative" gene selection criteria (CSIRO Website)

26 September 2003

o GM Nation? Most participants in the recent U.K. debate were somewhat opposed or completely opposed to genetically modified crops and foods. (GM Public Debate Website) 

o Brain Drain Threatens GM Crop Research (The Guardian)

o Control of Leaf Morphogenesis by MicroRNAs (Nature)

o Genetically Modified Cotton Use on the Rise (India Business Standard)

o Biodiversity Treaty Called Disastrous (The Scientist)

o Let's Not Get Too Romantic about Traditional Knowledge (SciDev.Net)

o Consolidated African Union/ACP/LDC Position on Agriculture (allAfrica.com)

o Food Safety and GM Crops: Implications for Developing-Country Research (IFPRI)

14 September 2003

VERY IMPORTANT: The U.S. State Department has devoted the September 2003 edition of its electronic journal, Economic Perspectives, to issues associated with agricultural biotechnology. Do not miss this one.

o Table of contents of September issue of African Journal of Biotechnology. Abstracts, full articles and PDF files available

o Table of contents of August issue of Electronic Journal of Biotechnology. Abstracts, full articles and PDF files available

o Download papers from conference on "Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO: Where are We Heading?" held in June 2003, Capri, Italy

o Overplanting Threatens GE Corn Technology (Center for Science in the Public Interest)

o Impact of New Biotechnologies on Sustainable Development (CropBiotech Net)