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Starved for science how biotechnology is being kept out of Africa

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge Harvard University Press, 2008Description: xv, 235 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780674033474
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 630.96PAA
Summary: In Starved for Science Robert Paarlberg explains why poor African farmers are denied access to productive technologies, particularly genetically engineered seeds with improved resistance to insects and drought. He traces this obstacle to the current opposition to farm science in prosperous countries. Having embraced agricultural science to become well-fed themselves, those in wealthy countries are now instructing Africans―on the most dubious grounds―not to do the same.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-219) and index.

In Starved for Science Robert Paarlberg explains why poor African farmers are denied access to productive technologies, particularly genetically engineered seeds with improved resistance to insects and drought. He traces this obstacle to the current opposition to farm science in prosperous countries. Having embraced agricultural science to become well-fed themselves, those in wealthy countries are now instructing Africans―on the most dubious grounds―not to do the same.

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