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Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic world

Stuart McCook reviews a book describing the incorporation of traditional medicines from the Caribbean into European medicines in the 18th century.

Author: Londa Schiebinger

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Publication date: 2004

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Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?

Author: Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite

Publisher: Earthscan

Publication date: 6 February 2002

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Where is science in the developing world?

A series of articles, written by TWAS members and published by Nature, discusses the status of science in the South

Pest control goes local

Integrating biopesticide research and development with local knowledge and resources is helping India's poor farmers

The global food crisis

A series of articles debate key issues such as GM technology, media reporting and agricultural policymaking

Guardian Network

SciDev.Net joins a new network of the world's best environment websites

Who's to blame for the Kosi floods?

Could Nepal's flood disaster have been avoided with better technological choices and institutional arrangements?

The challenges facing African agriculture

Florence Wambugu, winner of the 2008 YARA prize for African agriculture, discusses the challenges facing the field