ARCHIVES OF DEBATE, CONFERENCE 8
"What should be the role and focus of biotechnology in the agricultural research agendas of developing countries ?"
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1. Very little public funds should be devoted to biotechnology
2. Disapponting benefits from GMO research
3. National breeding programmes
4. Room for all technologies?
5. Biotech is an important tool to achieve sustainability in LDCs
6. Re: Very little public funds should be devoted to biotechnology
7. Re: Very little public funds should be devoted to biotechnology
8. Biotechnology research in the public sector
9. Fund public good biotechnology
10. Transgenic crop technology
11. GE vs. non-GE biotech research
12. Re GE vs. non-GE biotech research
13. Multinational companies and research
14. Farmers need more technology options
15. Re: Biotechnology research in the public sector
16. Re: Biotechnology research in the public sector
17. What should be the role of biotechnology in a country like Venezuela
18. Biotechnology, liberalism and the poor
19. Complementary focus and synergy
20. Re: Farmers need more technology options
21. The importance of biotechnology in rice research
22. Re: What should be the role of biotechnology in a country like Venezuela
23. Asian needs
24. Other areas of biotechnology
25. Necessity of the participation of the poor to define the right research priority
26. Re: Other areas of biotechnology
27. Re: Necessity of the participation of the poor to define the right research priority
28. GE crops and IPRs
29. Re: GE crops and IPRs
30. Publically funded genomics research
31. Developing countries stand to gain from agricultural biotechnology
32. Re: Publically funded genomics research
33. Theories of direct nutrition and of superior races
34. Re: Publically funded genomics research
35. Developing countries stand to gain from agricultural biotechnology
36. Capacity of developing the technology and holding IPRs
37. Biotechnology should contribute to wealth creation in developing countries
38. National agrobiotechnology must be supported globally
39. Place and role of biotechnology in agricultural research agenda in developing countries
40. Re: Theories of direct nutrition and of superior races
41. Re: Developing countries stand to gain from agricultural biotechnology
42. Site-specific agroecological research
43. Rice production
44. Re: Capacity of developing the technology and holding IPRs
45. Funding research programs
46. Nutritional security and agribiotech
47. Pooling together regional resources in agricultural biotech research
48. Agricultural research in developing countries // cake icing
49. Re: Pooling together regional resources in agricultural biotech research
50. Farmers making choices
51. GM crop research and field testing
52. Focus of biotechnology research in developing countries
53. Priority setting in agricultural research // aircrafts
54. Are we pursuing the wrong research objectives?
55. Save the funds for conventional agricultural research
56. Biotechnology ofen more justified by faith in technological progress than by rigorous analysis
57. Re: Pooling together regional resources in agricultural biotech research
58. Re: Priority setting in agricultural research // aircrafts
59. Fund conventional research
60. Biotechnology research
61. Re: Are we pursuing the wrong research objectives?
62. Re: Are we pursuing the wrong research objectives?
63. Re: Are we pursuing the wrong research objectives?
64. Re: Are we pursuing the wrong research objectives?
65. Re: Are we pursuing the wrong research objectives?
66. Crop biotech reaching small farmers
67. Re: Are we pursuing the wrong research objectives?
--. Message from the Moderator
68. Re: Priority setting in agricultural research // aircrafts
69. Re: Are we pursuing the wrong research objectives
70. GM crops in gene centres
71. GM crops and Argentina
72. Optimal allocation of resources - technologies
73. Research into tracing GMOs
74. Transgenic research
75. What should be the role and focus of biotech research?
76. Establishing biotechnology priorities in agriculture for Sri Lanka
77. IPRs - Review of TRIPS 27.3(b), Research Exemptions & Training
78. Research for fruit farmers in Egypt
79. SOFA 2003
80. Research into bio-fertilisers and bio-pesticides
81. Re: Research into bio-fertilisers and bio-pesticides
82. Re: SOFA 2003
83. Research on organic biotechnologies
84. Realistic priorities needed for biotech research in developing countries
85. More focus needed in forest biotechnology research
86. A farmers perspective - research
87. Where to put the buck
88. Fish based integration systems
89. Re: Realistic priorities needed for biotech research in developing countries
90. Synthesis of e-conference
91. Re: Synthesis of e-conference
92. Priorities for biotech research in developing countries
93. Re: Synthesis of e-conference
94. A participatory research agenda
95. "Work group" research
96. The best technology
97. Emerging economies need emergent biotechnologies
98. Biotechnology in developing countries
99. Farm animal biotechnology research
100. Re: A participatory research agenda
101. Re: Emerging economies need emergent biotechnologies
102. Pool regional resources and use independent research
103. Enabling environments
104. Fish farming and biotechnology in developing countries
105. Human capacity and stakeholder participation in biotechnology research
106. Genetic modification and public good research
107. Re: Fish farming and biotechnology in developing countries
108. The status of biotech research in agriculture
109. "Scientifically illiterate, politically clueless"
110. Re: Fish farming and biotechnology in developing countries
111. Democratize biotechnology processes
112. Re: Democratize biotechnology processes
113. Modern biotechnology research in Turkey
114. Meeting the research needs of small farmers in developing countries
115. Convincing farmers of research results
116. Corporate biotech research
117. Priorities for agricultural research in biotechnology for developing countries
118. Role and focus of biotechnology research
119. Making breeding improvements succeed
120. A contribution from Bolivia
121. Biotechnology esearch objectives // Country collaborations
122. Re: Meeting the research needs of small farmers in developing countries
123. Policy research on gene business
124. Re: Corporate biotech research
125. Biotechnological research technologies are context-dependent
126. Training biotechnology researchers in developing countries
127. Farmers expertise and biotechnology research
128. Demand-driven research to benefit small farmers
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