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Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

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Author(s): Robert Paarlberg
Edition: 1
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2008

Language: English
Pages: 254

CONTENTS......Page 6
Foreword by Norman E. Borlaug and Jimmy Carter......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Introduction - Why Are Africans Rejecting Biotechnology?......Page 20
1 Why Rich Countries Dislike Agricultural GMOs......Page 40
2 Downgrading Agricultural Science in Rich Countries......Page 66
3 Withdrawing Support for Agricultural Science in Africa......Page 100
4 Keeping Genetically Engineered Crops Out of Africa......Page 130
5 Drought-Tolerant Crops—Only for the Rich?......Page 168
Conclusion - An Imperialism of Rich Tastes......Page 198
References......Page 216
Index......Page 240