Science, Agriculture, and Research: A Compromised Participation?

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Earthscan, 2002 - 163 pages
Research is never free of pressures and constraints and to understand its results properly these have to be assessed and analyzed. In agriculture, research into biotechnology and GMOs, as well as pesticides and herbicides, is big business - agribusiness. This book looks at the crucial roles of funding and the political context on the research agenda and its results in agricultural development. It provides a critical evaluation of the participatory methods now widely used and explores the ways in which research into biotechnology have reflected the interests of the various parties involved.

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Contents

Introduction
1
What Drives Agricultural Research?
5
From Jethro Tull to Grain Mountains The Origins and Development of Agricultural Research Systems
24
Agriculture and the Empire Transferring Technocracies
37
Modern Times Agribusiness and Biotechnology
70
The Rise and Further Rise? of Participation
94
A Compromised Participation?
125
References
152
Index
158
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