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Capacity Building
Pages 27-28

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... This is equally true whether the genes are transferred by GM technology or by conventional breeding. The international research centers (those under CGIAR sponsorship)
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... Build sufficient scientific and technical human resources in each country to enable it to assess the relative benefits and the risks of GM technology; (b) Strengthen local and global infrastructure; (c)
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  • biosafety guidelines

  • national governments
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  • cartagena protocol

  • relative benefits
  • cgiar sponsorship
  • agricultural environments
  • governments ensure
  • biosafety procedures

  • technical human
  • nations involved
  • develop simple
  • newly released
  • biotechnology require

  • share data
  • safe development
  • simple techniques
  • endogenous capacities
  • nations develop

  • world agriculture
  • sufficient scientific
  • released varieties
  • gm technology
  • national research


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