Biotechnology and Agricultural Development (eBook, ePUB)

Transgenic Cotton, Rural Institutions and Resource-poor Farmers
Redaktion: Tripp, Rob

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The controversy over genetically modified (GM) crops in industrialized countries is paralleled by a loud debate over their potential role in developing countries, with supporters claiming that GM crops are the best hope for reducing rural poverty and hunger, and opponents predicting that they can only bring corporate control of peasant agriculture and environmental disaster. This book offers an examination of the performance of the new technology in the broader context of the agricultural institutions that govern its generation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135998776
• Artikelnr.: 38265364

Autorenporträt

Robert Tripp has a doctorate in social anthropology and has spent his career working on issues related to agricultural technology development and dissemination. He spent 15 years with the Economics Program of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and 12 years as a research fellow with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Biotechnology and Agricultural Development Robert Tripp 2. Cotton
Production and Technology Robert Tripp 3. Development, Agronomic
Performance and Sustainability of Transgenic Cotton for Insect Control Ann
M. Showalter, Shannon Heuberger, Bruce E. Tabashnik, and Yves Carrière 4.
Transgenic Cotton. Assessing Economic Performance in the Field Robert Tripp
5. Transgenic Cotton and Institutional Performance Robert Tripp 6. Farmers'
Seed and Pest Control Management for Bt Cotton in China Jikun Huang,
Ruijian Chen, Jianwei Mi, Ruifa Hu, and Ellie Osir 7. India's Experience
with Bt Cotton: Case Studies from Gujarat and Maharashtra N. Lalitha,
Bharat Ramaswami, and P.K. Viswanathan 8. The Socioeconomic Impact of
Transgenic Cotton in Colombia Patricia Zambrano, Luz Amparo Fonseca, Iván
Cardona and Eduardo Magalhaes 9. Ten years of Bt cotton in South Africa:
Putting the smallholder experience into context Marnus Gouse 10. Summary
and Conclusions Robert Tripp