Governing Agricultural Sustainability
Global lessons from GM crops
Although GM crops are seen by their advocates as a key component of the future of world agriculture and as part of the solution for world poverty and hunger, their uptake has not been smooth nor universal: they have been marred by controversy and all too commonly their regulation has been challenged as inadequate, even biased. This book aims to understand these dynamics, examining the impacts of GM crops in diverse contexts and their potentials to contribute to sustainable agricultural futures. Part 1 draws on research from three global 'rising powers' - Brazil, India and Mexico - exploring the views of scientists, farmers and publics. Using…
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Weitere Autoren: Carro-Ripalda, Susana (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-48602-2
- EAN: 9781317486022
- Produktnummer: 19571430
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 262 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 7'016 KB
- Abbildungen: 7 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 3 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 4 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Phil Macnaghten is Professor of Technology and International Development at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He was Professor of Geography at Durham University (UK), and Founder Director of Durham University's Institute of Hazard and Risk Research. He coordinated the GMFuturos research project. Susana Carro-Ripalda is a social anthropologist, Honorary Research Fellow at Durham University, and currently Visiting Researcher at the Universidad del País Vasco, Spain. She was Senior Research Fellow and GMFuturos Project Manager in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University, and has lectured at the universities of Durham, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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