Recommended Reading

Diamond, Jared.  1997.  Guns , Germs, and Steel.  The Fates of Human Societies.  W. W. Norton and Co., NY  ISBN 0-393-31755-2

Food Security and Environmental Quality in the Developing World, by Rattan Lal, David Hansen, Norman Uphoff, Steven Slack

In India, by Henri Cartier-Bresson

International Food Policy Research Institution Publication:  http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/ib/ib35.pdf

On-Line Resources

• Women: Still the Key to Food and Nutrition Security
• Agricultural Biotechnology and Policy Processes in Developing Countries
• University of Pretoria, South Africa - Publication Page
• Pakissan.com - Advisory Point / Bio-Technology
• Golden Rice - Resources and Opinions
• Agricultural Biotechnology and the Poor: Promethean Science, by G. J. Persley
• Genetic Engineering of Food Crops for the Third World: An Appropriate Response to Poverty, Hunger and Lagging Productivity by Peter Rosset
• University of California Biotechnology Research and Education Program
• The RAFI (USA) website:
• AgbioIndia:
• BioDevelopments:
• AgBio World:
• The Centre for International Development at Harvard University website on Biotechnology:
• IFPRI:
• Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India:
• Development Gateway:
• Biotechnology in Pakistan:
• CGIAR on biotechnology and the poor:
• IDS, University of Sussex:
• Democratising Biotechnology, Policy Briefings 1-13, IDS, University of Sussex