Via Association AGRIDEA., "Learning how small-scale farmers learn from the new technologies exhibited in Mekelle by their peers and by modern workshops and research centres made us realize how little the majority of 'educated' people in agricultural research and development understand what interests the farmers."
Via Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Conference speaker notes that biotechnology has automatically come to mean transgenic. "He said some of the confusion has been caused by scientists themselves and he criticized those who have oversold and over-promised the technology."
Adler, Peter S. (author), Birkhoff, Juliana E. (author), and National Policy Consensus Center, Portland, Oregon. www.policyconsensus.org
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2002-10
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21964
Notes:
17 pages., "Twenty things you can do to help environmental stakeholder groups talk more effectively about science, culture, professional knowledge, and community wisdom." Snapshots from six states.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2002-11-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25551
Notes:
Retrieved December 28, 2006, 2 pages., Involves access to records about biotechnology research including safety protocols, compliance documents and corporate contracts.
