Genetic engineering is changing the terrain of development studies.
Technologies with unprecedented potential - the capacity to move
genes across species - have created widely politicized phenomena:
'Frankenfoods', 'GMOs', and 'The Terminator'. En masse, the public
has reacted with equanimity or appreciation to genetically
engineered pharmaceuticals, beginning with insulin, but transgenics
in food and agriculture have raised a globally contentious
politics.
This book begins with the needs of the poor - for income,
nutrition, environmental integrity - and evaluates the theory and
evidence for contributions from transgenic crops. Social scientists
with expertise in regional studies, economics, sociology,
agriculture and political science join biologists to bring
specialized knowledge on genuinely new questions created by the
genomics revolution; questions of:
- ecological integrity
- biodiversity
- international trade
- the costs and effectiveness of biosafety protocols.
The authors collectively conclude that predictions of disaster
for the poor from transgenic technology are uninformed by empirical
results, rest on misunderstandings of biotechnology or the poor or
both, or get the science wrong. Yet the triumphalism of
pro-transgenic forces, however, must be tempered by serious
unanswered questions: much is unknown, but the transgenic genie is
out of the bottle.
In this much-needed book, an emergent empirical literature
allows scholars in disciplines ranging from micro-biology to
economics and political science to assess the potential effects of
transgenic organisms on poverty through multiple dynamics of
property, yields, prices, biodiversity, environmental integrity and
nutrition.
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