Starved for science : how biotechnology is being kept out of Africa / Robert Paarlberg ; [with a foreword by Norman E. Borlaug and Jimmy Carter].
Paarlberg, Robert L.
2008
S494.5.B563 P33 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Starved for science : how biotechnology is being kept out of Africa / Robert Paarlberg ; [with a foreword by Norman E. Borlaug and Jimmy Carter].
Author Paarlberg, Robert L.
ISBN 9780674029736 (alk. paper)
0674029739 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Language English
Description xv, 235 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number S494.5.B563 P33 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 630.96
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-219) and index.
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Foreword / by Norman E. Borlaug and Jimmy Carter
Preface
Introduction : Why are Africans rejecting biotechnology?
Why rich countries dislike agricultural GMOs
Downgrading agricultural science in rich countries
Withdrawing support for agricultural science in Africa
Keeping genetically engineered crops out of Africa
Drought-tolerant crops : only for the rich?
Conclusion : an imperialism of rich tastes.

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