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Between 1999 and 2003 IDS was involved in a number of projects looking at the emerging policy debates around GM crops in the developing world. Ten years on, the promise that GM crops are going to provide the 'pro-poor' solution to agricultural challenges appears to be gaining ascendancy once more. While not 'anti-GM' in any sense, our work then – and much work since – has offered a critical and nuanced perspective often missing from current, rather polarised, debates.

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Unravelling the Biofuel complex: the challenge for agrarian economies

Published: 12 Oct 2010 Workers in an Indonesian nursery tend palm oil shoots. Photo: Natalie Behring/PANOS

The global investment in crops such as palm oil in Indonesia and corn in the US has had mixed results for small holders.


GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis

Published: 15 Jun 2009

On Wednesday 10 June, three speakers from SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research, Wageningen University and the University of East Anglia spoke at a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Debt, Aid and Trade on the often controversial topic of genetically-modified (GM) crops and their potential to counteract the global problems of poverty and hunger.


GM Crops Ten Years On: The Undying Promise

Published: 10 Jun 2009 Farmers buying seeds, India. GMB Akash / Panos

In Parliament this evening, the STEPS Centre will launch its Biotechnology Research Archive, spanning 10 years of GM research, and a new working paper on GM crops ten years on.




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Biotechnology projects at IDS

  • Agricultural Biotechnology & Policy Processes in Developing Countries - (Ongoing)
  • Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre - The STEPS Centre is an interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement hub, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. It aims to develop a new approach to understanding, action and communication on sustainability and development. (Ongoing)