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Editorials archive results 1-5 of 5 in Agriculture & Environment and Biodiversity
'Biopiracy' requires reasoned treatment
The fight against biopiracy must embrace both legitimate science and social justice if biodiversity itself is not to suffer.
Plants or people? The debate continues
Is preserving biodiversity compatible with achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals? Judging by reactions to the most recent report on global biodiversity, the answer seems to depend on where one is coming from.
EDITORIAL | 23 May 2005 | EN
Poverty alleviation key to preserving biodiversity
Too often, efforts to conserve biodiversity pay insufficient attention to human needs. A leading economist is now proposing a strategy by which this might change.
EDITORIAL | 3 March 2003 | EN
'Sustainability science' is no solution
New ways are needed of linking science and technology to the goals of sustainable development. But inventing a new field of 'sustainability science' is not necessarily the answer.
EDITORIAL | 12 August 2002 | EN
Butterflies, GM crops and social responsibilities
A report on the controversy over the potential threat of genetically modified corn to the Monarch butterfly provides some useful pointers to ways in which such controversies could be better handled in future.
EDITORIAL | 3 June 2002 | EN
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