AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY IN THE PACIFIC final
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Introduction The South Pacific Island region covers an area of 525,000 sq. km. with a total population of six million (predicted to rise to 12 million in 30 years time). The whole Pacific region is composed of a vast number of islands which vary in size from Papua New Guinea with a population of around four million, to Niue with a population of less than 2,000. Although not similar in terms of size, geological origins and other characteristics, the islands share many common features, such as their remoteness from markets, limited and fragile agricultural, forest and inland fisheries resources, scarcity of skilled manpower, high population growth, and fragile economies and environment. Subsistence agriculture, (over half of all farms) based on root crop staples is a mainstay of Pacific Island economies. This form of agriculture remains dominant, and has the advantage of being environment friendly but the disadvantage of low productivity.
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Policy Challenges for Agricultural Biotechnology in the Asia Pacific: Developing a Framework for Analysis
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Michael G. K. Jones, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, Australia. Tel: 61 8 936
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