Articles from Co-Director

Genetic Engineering Of Food Crops For The Third World-A Report in Two Parts
Peter Rosset, Co-Director
March 18, 2004 - When we speak of national markets, we find that small and peasant farmers, despite their disadvantaged position in society, are the primary producers of staple foods, accounting for very high percentages of national production in most third world countries. Their agriculture is complex, diverse and risk prone. This is because they have historically been displaced into marginal zones characterized by broken terrain, slopes, irregular rainfall, little irrigation, and/or low soil fertility; and because they are poor and are victimized by pervasive anti-poor and anti-small farmer biases in national and global economic policies. It is not a lack of technology which holds such farmers back, but rather pervasive injustices and inequities in access to resources, including land, credit, market access, etc., and other anti-poor policy biases.

Genetic Engineering Of Food Crops For The Third World:-A Report in Two Parts
Peter Rosset, Co-Director
March 18, 2004 - Part II of this report continues with a full bibliography.

Access To Land: Land Reform and Security of Tenure
Peter Rosset, Co-Director
February 17, 2004 - Access to land and security of tenure are critical elements in alleviating rural poverty and moving toward a world where food security and the absence of hunger are a reality for all. At the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome, the governments of the world agreed upon a declaration to reduce hunger by one half in the year 2015. This paper reviews the original commitments made in 1996, and the overall lack of progress by governments in meeting them.