Discussion documents

A number of background documents are provided to initiate and focus discussions:

• Nuffield Council on Bioethics report: The use of GM crops in developing countries
  
  
• Text of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  
  
• ICSU in Science: New Genetics, Food and Agriculture: Scientific Discoveries – Societal Dilemmas
  
  
• UN Report (2005): Innovation: Applying Knowledge in Development: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
  
  
• Decision on the Report of the interim Chairperson on the Africa-Wide Capacity building in Biosafety
  
  
• Africa-wide Capacity Building Programme in Biosafety