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Issues in the political economy of agricultural biotechnology
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posted on 2023-06-09, 03:54 authored by David Wield, Joanna Chataway, Maurice BoloAgricultural biotechnology is typically analyzed critically by means of a political ecological focus on the science and its ecological implications - agbio science as a radical, and 'non-natural', break with 'normal' trajectories for 'new plant science'. Surprisingly, less attention has been paid to a range of key political economic issues, many of which were important in the last big food production technology 'revolution', the Green Revolution. This paper will focus on three areas of political economy. First, we discuss the corporate drivers of agricultural biotechnology, and examine whether these drivers have already set the technology so that it cannot be changed. Second, we investigate the present economics and technology of genetic modification in plants, and its possible future. Third, we examine empirical evidence for alternative visions of the technology.
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Journal of Agrarian ChangeISSN
1471-0358Publisher
WileyExternal DOI
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3Volume
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342-366Department affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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2016-11-07Usage metrics
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