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. The Journal of
Development Studies awards an annual prize in memory of the late
Dudley Seers, for the best article to appear in each volume of the
Journal. Transgenics and the Poor:Biotechnology in Development
Studies" has been adjudged to be the winner of the Dudley Seers
Memorial Prize for Volume 43.
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