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Policy Briefs archive results 1-2 of 2 in Agriculture & Environment and Bioprospecting

The case for joint action on biotechnology in Africa

What are the main issues that African nations face in forthcoming negotiations on biotechnology and biosafety?

POLICY BRIEF | 4 June 2007 | EN

Bioprospecting: legitimate research or 'biopiracy'?

A growing number of critics of 'bioprospecting' complain that companies often fail to adequately compensate holders of traditional knowledge, and that patents on products developed in this way are actually a form of intellectual piracy.

POLICY BRIEF | 26 May 2003 | EN | 中文

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Missed the Global Health Forum 2009?

Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels

Grain strain

Can China harness new growing techniques to combat climate change around the Yangtze?

Potato battles

South Africa's Agricultural Research Council is challenging the government's ban on a disease-resistant GM potato

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