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Governing agricultural sustainability : global lessons from GM crops / edited by Phil Macnaghten and Susana Carro-Ripalda.

Contributor Macnaghten, Phil.

Imprint:New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.

Descriptionxviii, 244 pages ; 24 cm.

Note:Part I. The GMFuturos research: 1. Researching GM crops in a global context / Phil Macnaghten, Susana Carro-Ripalda and Joanildo Burity -- 2. An analysis of the GM crop debate in Mexico / Susana Carro-Ripalda, Marta Astier and Patricia Artia -- 3. An analysis of the GM crop debate in Brazil / Julia S. Guivant and Phil Macnaghten -- 4. An analysis of the GM crop debate in India / Yulia Egorova, Rajeswari S. Raina and Kamminthang Mantuong -- 5. Comparing GM crops in Mexico, Brazil and India / Phil Macnaghten -- Part II. Commentaries on governing GM crops: 6. The route to food security is not through glorification of the rural idyl and demonisation of global trade (or vice versa) / Ian Crute -- 7. Lessons from China's GM controversy / Adrian Ely -- 8. Public participation, accountability and the stewardship of transgenic crops / Dominic Glover -- 9. An anthropological perspective on the promise and the threat of GM crops / Penny Harvey -- 10. Neoliberal origins of anti-GM protest in Europe / Les Levidow -- 11. GM futures : perspectives from a plant molecular biologest / Keith Lindsey -- 12. The search for affirming narratives for the future governance of thechnology : reflections from a science-theology persective on GMFuturos / Tom McLeish -- 13. Crop science, the Heisenberg principle and resistance to genetically modified organisms / Michael S. Northcott -- 14. Innovating governance? / Judith Petts -- 15. Institutional rigidities and impediments : agricultural research and GM crops in India / Rajeswari S. Raina -- 16. Focusing on GM crops / Bob Simpson -- 17. A responsible innovation governance framerwork for GM crops : global lessons fofr agriculutural sustainability / Phil Macnaghten. -- Index.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.



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Sustainable agriculture.