Big Nelo looks like your typical thugged-out rapper, dressed in designer baggies with several heavy silver chains draped round his neck. But the founding member of Angola's first and most successful hip hop band, SSP, has a social conscience rarely found among his American contemporaries.

Identifies five policy areas in which governments of developing countries can either support or discourage GM crops: intellectual property rights, biosafety, trade, food safety, and public research and investment. Johns Hopkins University Press 2001, ISBN 0-8018-6668-5.

The USAID officer, committed and caring fellow, said to me: "Richard, computers in schools? Uganda is still a bookless society. They need books, not computers!" I had to think about this before replying: "In a bookless society, why start with books?"—a digital variant of Wayne Gretzky's injunction to "skate to where the puck is gonna be!"

The WHAT Commissions have highlighted urgent issues in the management and over-exploitation of three of the world’s key resources – fisheries, agricultural bio-diversity and freshwater supplies. The common conclusion is that action is needed now, at both the global and national levels, to improve radically the systems we have for governing the use of these resources.