Biotechnology and the future of world agriculture: the fourth resource
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1991
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| adam_text | Titel: Biotechnology and the future of world agriculture
Autor: Hobbelink, Henk
Jahr: 1991
Contents
Abbreviations ix
Prologue 1
1. The Fourth Resource 3
Agriculture in Crisis 8
The soil and water crisis 8
The productivity crisis 10
Through the looking glass 12
The hidden harvest 14
The problems not addressed 16
Biotechnology, the solution? 17
The Tools 20
Cutting and pasting 21
About language and limitations 23
Culturing cells and tissues 26
Controlling the process 27
A new threshold? 28
The Actors 30
Public or private? 31
Dominance of the transnational corporations (TNCs) 32
The concentration within 43
Providing the Inputs 51
The biased focus: herbicide tolerance 52
Eroding the options Artificial snlutinm? 61 65
6. Transforming the Output
The circle of sugar .
The chocolate crop __
The battle for vegetable oils r*
Interchanging products, markets and producers
7. Controlling the Profit jjjj
An historical appraisal
The great reversal _.
Tightening the grip: the push for patents on life J JJ7
The implications
8. Appropriate Biotechnology? j*j?
The IARCS and the privatization of biotechnology j ^«
Third World national efforts to get involved I23
9. The Original Biotechnologist j^
Diversity for production j^
Multiple cropping, multiple benefits J3°
Biotechnology for the people 1 ^
Promoting people s participation ^
Epilogue 149
Index 152
List of Tables
2.1 Problems in rice and the Green Revolution response 16
2.2 Comparing the Green Revolution and bio-revolution 18
3.1 Milestones in biotechnology 25
4.1 The true new biotechnology firms 35
4.2 Investments in food and agriculture-related biotech companies 37
4.3 Topag-biotechnologycompaniesR D spending (1988) 40
4.4 Top ten pesticide houses 44
4.5 The top ten pharmaceutical corporations and the urge to merge 44
4.6 The top ten seed corporations 46
4.7 Thetopteaifoodprocessingcorporations 48
5.1 Research on herbicide tolerance 55
5.2 The work oa artificial seeds 66
6-1 AgricuhuralexportsfromtheThirdWorld 71
6.2 The attack on sugar: biotechnology research on the new
sweeteners 79
6.3 The natural super sweets 81
6.4 Cocoa production, yield, exports and dependency 83
6.5 Biotechnology research on cocoa 87
6.6 Global vegetable oil production and exports 89
8.1 The privatization oflARCS and related institutions 125
8.2 Biotechnology programmes in Asia 129
8.3 Biotechnology in Thailand 131
9.1 Ten reasons for multiple cropping 141
9.2 Sustainable agriculture: farmers and biotech approaches 144
Graphs
1.1 The state of the US Genebank 4
2.1 Changes in cropping patterns, Punjab (India), 1966-86 11
2.2 The Green Revolution in the Philippines: rises in farm costs,
1970-81 13
3.1 Time needed for the synthesis of a gene 23
4.1 The biotechnology web: co-operative agreements within the
industry 41
4.2 CorporatebiotechR D in the Netherlands 42
5.1 Global research on herbicide tolerance 59
5.2 Research on biological control agents 63
6.1 The decline of sugar: Philippine sugar exports to the USA 76
6.2 Biotechnology and sugar: sweetener consumption in the USA,
1965-85 77
6.3 Shares of world cocoa production, by continent, 1970-90 83
6.4 Shares ofworld cocoa production, by country, 1970-90 84
6.5 Global vegetable oil production 90
7.1 Third World patents: to residents and non-residents 101
7.2 The use of certified cereal seed, by EEC country 114
7.3 Theuseofhome-grownseedintheUSA.bycrop 114
7.4 European plant patentapplications 116
8.1 Institutions working on biotechnology, Latin America and
the Caribbean 124
9.1 Annual yield of a single plot in the Philippines, by crop 140
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7.1 Twelve reasons to say no to life patents 109
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