Marketing and Trade Policies for Genetically Modified Products
Marketing and Trade Policies for Genetically Modified Products

Author: Guillaume P. Gruère

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 2

ISBN-13:

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This brief analyzes the past successes and recent challenges of South Africa's trade and marketing policies on genetically modified (GM) products, with the aim of drawing lessons for countries that are designing their biosafety systems.

Biotechnology, Agriculture, and Food Security in Southern Africa
Biotechnology, Agriculture, and Food Security in Southern Africa

Author: Steven Were Omamo

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0896297373

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This book brings together experts from within and outside Africa to discuss the current status of biotechnology in southern Africa, the conceptual framework for multistakeholder dialogues, the political and ethical issues surrounding biotechnology, food safety and consumer issues, biosafety, intellectual property rights, and trade involving genetically modified foods.

Thwarting Consumer Choice
Thwarting Consumer Choice

Author: Gary E. Marchant

Publisher: Government Institutes

Published: 2010-05-16

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 0844743437

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In Thwarting Consumer Choice, Gary E. Marchant, Guy A. Cardineau, and Thomas P. Redick contend that mandatory GM labeling laws actually harm consumers by pushing genetically modified foods off the market.

Biofuels, Poverty, and Growth: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Mozambique
Biofuels, Poverty, and Growth: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Mozambique

Author: Channing Arndt, Rui Benfica, Finn Tarp, James Thurlow, and Rafael Uaiene

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13:

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This paper assesses the implications of large-scale investments in biofuels for growth and income distribution. We find that biofuels investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels. Overall, the biofuel investment trajectory analyzed increases Mozambique's annual economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and reduces the incidence of poverty by about 6 percentage points over a 12-year phase-in period. Benefits depend on production technology. An outgrower approach to producing biofuels is more pro-poor, due to the greater use of unskilled labor and accrual of land rents to smallholders, compared with the more capital-intensive plantation approach. Moreover, the benefits of outgrower schemes are enhanced if they result in technology spillovers to other crops. These results should not be taken as a green light for unrestrained biofuels development. Rather, they indicate that a carefully designed and managed biofuels policy holds the potential for substantial gains.