Biotechnology And The Politics Of Plants
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Biotechnology and the Politics of Plants
Author | : Matt Hodges |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781000403367 |
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Biotechnology and the Politics of Plants explores the mysterious phenomenon of ‘apomixis’, the ability of certain plants to ‘self-clone’, and its potential as a revolutionary tool for agriculture and enhancing food security, that may soon be a reality. Through historical anthropological and ethnographic study, Matt Hodges traces the development of the CIMMYT Apomixis Project, a prominent frontier research initiative, and its reinvention as a leading public-private partnership. He analyzes the fast-moving historical transition from public sector, mixed plant breeding approaches grounded in genetics, to a contemporary era of agricultural biotechnology and genomics where PPPs are a leading format, and explores how social contexts of research shape how knowledge is produced, as well as what remains ‘unknown’, and constrain the development of an ‘Apomixis Technology’. The chapters present an inventive approach informed by the anthropology of time, science and technology studies, and dialogue with the work of Gilles Deleuze, Paul Rabinow, Hannah Arendt, Andrew Pickering, and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Hodges outlines novel ways of integrating notions of history and becoming, and considers how apomixis offers up an alternative image of thought to theoretical concepts such as the well-known ‘rhizome’. The book makes a valuable contribution to both the growing social scientific literature on genomics and biotechnology, and recent anthropological debates on time and history.
First the Seed
Author | : Jack Ralph Kloppenburg |
Publsiher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1990-06-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521395585 |
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This history of the scientific and commercial lines of plant development in the United States traces the transformation of the seed from a public good produced and reproduced by farmers into a commodity controlled by businesses and corporations divorced from the uses of their product.
First the Seed
Author | : Jack Ralph Kloppenburg |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:868632116 |
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The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food
Author | : R. Falkner |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2006-11-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780230598195 |
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Genetically modified food is at the heart of a new global conflict over how to govern risky technologies in an era of globalization. This timely collection brings together experts from the fields of IR, environmental studies, trade and law to examine the sources of international friction and to explore the prospects for international co-operation.
First the Seed
Author | : Jack Ralph Kloppenburg |
Publsiher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2005-04-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780299192433 |
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First the Seed spotlights the history of plant breeding and shows how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnology industry. This second edition of a classic work in the political economy of science includes an extensive, new chapter updating the analysis to include the most recent developments in the struggle over the direction of crop genetic engineering. 1988 Cloth, 1990 Paperback, Cambridge University Press Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Agricultural History Society Winner of the Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association
Genetically Modified Diplomacy
Author | : Peter Andrée |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780774840965 |
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When genetically engineered seeds were first deployed in the Americas in the mid-1990s, the biotechnology industry and its partners envisaged a world in which their crops would be widely accepted as the food of the future. Critics, however, raised a variety of social, environmental, economic, and health concerns. This book traces the emergence of the 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety � and the discourse of precaution toward GEOs that the protocol institutionalized internationally. Peter Andr�e explains this reversal in the "common-sense" understanding of genetic engineering, and discusses the new debates it has engendered.
The Frankenfood Myth
Author | : Henry Miller,Gregory Conko |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2004-08-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780313038334 |
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Few topics have inspired as much international furor and misinformation as the development and distribution of genetically altered foods. For thousands of years, farmers have bred crops for their resistance to disease, productivity, and nutritional value; and over the past century, scientists have used increasingly more sophisticated methods for modifying them at the genetic level. But only since the 1970s have advances in biotechnology (or gene-splicing to be more precise) upped the ante, with the promise of dramatically improved agricultural products—and public resistance far out of synch with the potential risks. In this provocative and meticulously researched book, Henry Miller and Gregory Conko trace the origins of gene-splicing, its applications, and the backlash from consumer groups and government agencies against so-called Frankenfoods—from America to Zimbabwe. They explain how a happy conspiracy of anti-technology activism, bureaucratic over-reach, and business lobbying has resulted in a regulatory framework in which there is an inverse relationship between the degree of product risk and degree of regulatory scrutiny. The net result, they argue, is a combination of public confusion, political manipulation, ill-conceived regulation (from such agencies as the USDA, EPA, and FDA), and ultimately, the obstruction of one of the safest and most promising technologies ever developed—with profoundly negative consequences for the environment and starving people around the world. The authors go on to suggest a way to emerge from this morass, proposing a variety of business and policy reforms that can unlock the potential of this cutting-edge science, while ensuring appropriate safeguards and moving environmentally friendly products into the hands of farmers and consumers. This book is guaranteed to fuel the ongoing debate over the future of biotech and its cultural, economic, and political implications.
Plants Genes and Crop Biotechnology
Author | : Maarten J. Chrispeels,David E. Sadava |
Publsiher | : Jones & Bartlett Learning |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0763715867 |
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This book integrates many fields to help students understand the complexity of the basic science that underlies crop and food production.