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developing countries is to help alleviate poverty and food insecurity, and to contribute to a better realisation of human rights …
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At the November 2009 World Summit on Food Security, states concluded that increasing agricultural productivity is the main means to meet the growing demand for food. They nominated agricultural biotechnology as a way of achieving this goal. A few months later, the Food and Agriculture...
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In recent weeks one aspect of science that has echoed through the media is biotechnology. To the non-scientist it all looks very confusing. The misconception of biotechnology is a problem the whole world over. Although biotechnology as a discipline has been in existence for many years, in...
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adoption of genetically modified plants--for household incomes, farmer profits, and poverty. Higher agricultural productivity … resulting from increased investments in research and development is found capable of significantly lowering poverty by lowering … raising agricultural productivity among the developing countries only is sufficient to achieve most poverty reduction in the …
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accelerated growth of both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Vast challenges of still widespread poverty and food … poverty reduction in still disadvantaged regions of Asia will need to be different as well. …
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