Biotechnology And The Politics Of Plants
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Author | : Matt Hodges |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 100040336X |
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.
Author | : Robin Pistorius |
Publisher | : Bioversity International |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Botany |
ISBN | : 9290433086 |
How plant genetic resources conservation became a global issue; Breeding strategies and conservation strategies; Establishing a globa es situ conservation network.
Author | : Jack Ralph Kloppenburg |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1990-06-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521395588 |
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.
Author | : Jack Ralph Kloppenburg |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2005-04-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0299192431 |
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
Author | : Maarten J. Chrispeels |
Publisher | : Jones & Bartlett Learning |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780763715861 |
This book integrates many fields to help students understand the complexity of the basic science that underlies crop and food production.
Author | : Jack Ralph Kloppenburg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : Kristin Dawkins |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2011-01-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1609803574 |
Despite technological advances, an alarming number of people in the world go hungry. Even more chilling is the fact that in the future that number will likely increase. In this book, Kristin Dawkins discusses the international policies that are shaping this future, including those that govern the genetic engineering of plants. Dawkins shows how a diversified gene pool is crucial to food production - and how corporate control of the gene pool threatens our collective security. Behind these issues lies the specter of globalization - transnational corporations freely exploiting the resources and consumers of the world while political power shifts to remote international institutions strictly dedicated to commerce. Dawkins challenges those in power to develop global systems of political discourse in the public interest and shows how each one of us can make a difference.
Author | : Peter Andrée |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 077484096X |
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.
Author | : Alan M. Russell |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780719058684 |
There are three sections. The first considers the nature of the science itself, the normative questions rasied and the significance of gender responses. Following these broad issues, the second section addresses biotechnology in relation to international policial economy, trade and the environment, highlighting the politics of food and patents. The final section tackles the question of biological knowledge applied to weapons and the global responses.
Author | : Agnès Ricroch |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2021-08-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030683451 |
Written in easy to follow language, the book presents cutting-edge agriculturally relevant plant biotechnologies and applications in a manner that is accessible to all. This book updates and introduces the scope and method of plant biotechnologies and molecular breeding within the context of environmental analysis and assessment, a diminishing supply of productive arable land, scarce water resources and climate change. New plant breeding techniques including CRISPR-cas system are now tools to meet these challenges both in developed countries and in developing countries. Ethical issues, intellectual property rights, regulation policies in various countries related to agricultural biotechnology are examined. The rapid developments in plant biotechnology are explained to a large audience with relevant examples. New varieties of crops can be adapted to new climatic conditions in order to reduce pest-associated losses and the adverse abiotic effects