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−	~~==Biographical Information==~~	+	Dr '''C. S. Prakash''' is Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics and Director of the [[Center for Plant Biotechnology Research]] at Tuskegee University, Alabama, USA, where he oversees research on the genetic modification of food crops and the training of scientists and students in plant biotechnology<ref>"[http://www.agbioworld.org/about/prakash-bio.html Dr. Channapatna S. Prakash]", AgBioWorld website, accessed September 2008</ref>.
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−	Dr C. S. Prakash is Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics and Director of the [[Center for Plant Biotechnology Research]] at Tuskegee University, Alabama, USA, where he oversees research on the genetic modification of food crops and the training of scientists and students in plant biotechnology<ref>"[http://www.agbioworld.org/about/prakash-bio.html Dr. Channapatna S. Prakash]", AgBioWorld website, accessed September 2008</ref>.

	He has served on the [[US Department of Agriculture]]'s Agricultural Biotechnology Advisory Committee and on the Advisory Committee for the Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India<ref>"[http://www.agbioworld.org/about/prakash-bio.html Dr. Channapatna S. Prakash]", AgBioWorld website, accessed September 2008</ref>. He is an advisor to [[USAID]], serving as the principal investigator of a [[USAID]]-funded project "to promote biotechnology awareness in Africa"<ref>"[http://www.agbioworld.org/about/prakash-bio.html Dr. Channapatna S. Prakash]", AgBioWorld website, accessed September 2008</ref>. Tuskegee University receives multi-million dollar funding from the US Agency for International Development ([[USAID]]).		He has served on the [[US Department of Agriculture]]'s Agricultural Biotechnology Advisory Committee and on the Advisory Committee for the Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India<ref>"[http://www.agbioworld.org/about/prakash-bio.html Dr. Channapatna S. Prakash]", AgBioWorld website, accessed September 2008</ref>. He is an advisor to [[USAID]], serving as the principal investigator of a [[USAID]]-funded project "to promote biotechnology awareness in Africa"<ref>"[http://www.agbioworld.org/about/prakash-bio.html Dr. Channapatna S. Prakash]", AgBioWorld website, accessed September 2008</ref>. Tuskegee University receives multi-million dollar funding from the US Agency for International Development ([[USAID]]).

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 Prakash told the press in the [http://ngin.tripod.com/200802f.htm Philippines] that GM crops can help reduce farmers' post-harvest losses because 'most genetically-modified crops have longer shelf life'. This is simply untrue. It is possible that Prakash was misreported, but if so he appears to have made no effort to correct the misleading impression created.
-Dubious claims are not the only aspect of Prakash's campaign which have led to questions. AgBioWorld presents itself as a mainstream science campaign 'that has emerged from academic roots and values' and which carefully eschews corporate support. Yet according to the [http://www.cei.org/PDFs/2K_annual_report.pdf annual report (2000]) of the Washington-based [[Competitive Enterpise Institute]] (CEI), the centre piece of AgBioWorld's campaign - Prakash's declaration supporting the use of GM crops in the developing world - was part of CEI's much wider campaign against 'death by regulation'. The same anti-regulatory CEI campaign has been directed against U.S. government efforts to discourage smoking because, according to the  CEI, [http://www.prwatch.org/improp/cei.html 'there are things more valuable than health'] .
+Dubious claims are not the only aspect of Prakash's campaign which have led to questions. AgBioWorld presents itself as a mainstream science campaign 'that has emerged from academic roots and values' and which carefully eschews corporate support. Yet according to the [http://www.cei.org/PDFs/2K_annual_report.pdf annual report (2000]) of the Washington-based [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]] (CEI), the centre piece of AgBioWorld's campaign - Prakash's declaration supporting the use of GM crops in the developing world - was part of CEI's much wider campaign against 'death by regulation'. The same anti-regulatory CEI campaign has been directed against U.S. government efforts to discourage smoking because, according to the  CEI, [http://www.prwatch.org/improp/cei.html 'there are things more valuable than health'] .
 Recently Prakash has been more open about the fact that [[Greg Conko]], Director of Food Safety Policy at CEI, is a 'co-founder' of [[AgBioWorld]]. Conko appears to have a high level of involvement in [[AgBioWorld]]. He was at the U.S. government's press conference as an invited guest when it announced its WTO action against the EU. Prakash was the principal orator.  He co-authored a Prakash op-ed article supporting the WTO action that appeared in the European Wall Street Journal the same day. On [[AgBioWorld]] [http://www.agbioworld.com/biotech_info/pr/srilanka.html press releases] Conko at the  CEI is often a media contact.
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 As the list's editor Prakash has control over what items are included and the prominence each item is given. It is perhaps symptomatic of his editorial approach that on one occasion he  headed an [[AgBioView]] bulletin with a 'letter' from the [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/10/03/do0304.xml Daily Telegraph] which had been intended as a satire on strident support for GM crops. Despite the letter proclaiming profit and the public interest to be identical, and labelling the majority of the British people 'instinctive Luddites, sunk in the darkness of medieval superstition', Prakash seems to have been unaware that it was anything other than a commendable letter of support for GM crops (see [[Paul Ohm]]).
 [[AgBioWorld]]'s press releases have often aroused controversy. In one instance, a press release issued by Prakash and Conko appeared to imply anti-GM activists had killed 10,000 people in the Indian state of Orissa through their opposition to GM contamination of food aid, when, in fact, those who died were victims of a cyclone. Although the Indian trade and policy analyst Devinder Sharma publicly remonstrated with Prakash over 'the obviously fabricated and mischievous' implications of his press release, no attempt was made to correct the impression it created. ([http://www.gene.ch/gentech/2002/Sep/msg00050.html GM food and Orissa - the real story])
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 Dr C. S. Prakash is Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics and Director of the [[Center for Plant Biotechnology Research]] at Tuskegee University, Alabama, USA, where he oversees research on the genetic modification of food crops and the training of scientists and students in plant biotechnology<ref>"[http://www.agbioworld.org/about/prakash-bio.html Dr. Channapatna S. Prakash]", AgBioWorld website, accessed September 2008</ref>.
-He has served on the [[US Department of Agriculture]]'s Agricultural Biotechnology Advisory Committee and on the Advisory Committee for the Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India<ref>"[http://www.agbioworld.org/about/prakash-bio.html Dr. Channapatna S. Prakash]", AgBioWorld website, accessed September 2008</ref>. He is an advisor to [USAID], serving as the principal investigator of a [[USAID]]-funded project "to promote biotechnology awareness in Africa"<ref>"[http://www.agbioworld.org/about/prakash-bio.html Dr. Channapatna S. Prakash]", AgBioWorld website, accessed September 2008</ref>. Tuskegee University receives multi-million dollar funding from the [[US Agency for International Development]] ([[USAID]]).
+He has served on the [[US Department of Agriculture]]'s Agricultural Biotechnology Advisory Committee and on the Advisory Committee for the Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India<ref>"[http://www.agbioworld.org/about/prakash-bio.html Dr. Channapatna S. Prakash]", AgBioWorld website, accessed September 2008</ref>. He is an advisor to [[USAID]], serving as the principal investigator of a [[USAID]]-funded project "to promote biotechnology awareness in Africa"<ref>"[http://www.agbioworld.org/about/prakash-bio.html Dr. Channapatna S. Prakash]", AgBioWorld website, accessed September 2008</ref>. Tuskegee University receives multi-million dollar funding from the US Agency for International Development ([[USAID]]).
 In 2000, a USDA report noted that it had "recently signed an agreement with sub-Saharan African countries and Tuskegee University to facilitate technology transfer related to agricultural biotechnology"<ref>"[The Role of Biotechnology in Combating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries]", Hearing before the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion of the Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate, 106th Congress, 2nd Session, 12 July 2000, p. 14, bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/hearings/106s/68041.pdf</ref>.

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