TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paarlberg, Robert L.
TI  - Starved for science: how biotechnology is being kept out of Africa
SN  - 9780674033474
U1  - 630.96PAA 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Agricultural biotechnology--Africa
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-219) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -