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List of terms for Indigenious knowledge

Producing enough food for a rapidly growing population, and taking care of our planet are two of the world's biggest challenges.

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Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the CBD asserts that natural resources belong to the sovereign state in which they exist, an assertion that some see as conflicting directly with commercial patent rights as defined under TRIPS (see below).

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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