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Author Paarlberg, Robert L.

Title Starved for science : how biotechnology is being kept out of Africa / Robert Paarlberg ; [with a foreword by Norman E. Borlaug and Jimmy Carter].

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  630.96 P111s 2009    ---  Available
Edition 1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.
Description xv, 235 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-219) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Agricultural biotechnology -- Africa.
Crops -- Genetic engineering -- Africa.
Agriculture and state -- Africa.
ISBN 9780674029736
0674029739
9780674033474 (pbk.)
0674033477 (pbk.)
Standard No. NZ1 12880406
AU@ 000044173244
CDX 8961543

 
    
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