Reflexive biotechnology development: studying plant breeding technologies and genomics for agriculture in the developing world

Agriculture plays a crucial role in the alleviation of extreme poverty and hunger. Development of new crop varieties that are more resistant to disease and pests, and that produce more in dry conditions or on poor soils, can contribute to agricultural development. However, while the technical potent...

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1. Verfasser: Vroom, Wietse 1980- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Wageningen Wageningen Academic Publishers 2009
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Zusammenfassung:Agriculture plays a crucial role in the alleviation of extreme poverty and hunger. Development of new crop varieties that are more resistant to disease and pests, and that produce more in dry conditions or on poor soils, can contribute to agricultural development. However, while the technical potential to improve crop varieties is increasing rapidly, such technologies do not always successfully contribute to the economic development of resource poor farmers. New technologies may never reach farmers, may be prohibitively expensive, or may solve only a very limited part of the problem that farmers are facing in practice. This book engages with the debate on how modern genetic technologies are used in plant breeding, and questions what it is that makes a new technology appropriate for pro-poor agricultural development. It does so by moving beyond a technical perspective on what con
Beschreibung:Presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Wageningen University. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-208)
""Table of contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Acronyms and abbreviations""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction: genetic technologies for international agricultural development""; ""The era of development""; ""Agricultural modernisation for development""; ""Genetic technologies for agriculture""; ""From Green Revolution to Gene Revolution?""; ""Making genetic technologies �appropriate� for agricultural development""; ""Concluding remarks""; ""Structure of the thesis""; ""Chapter 2 Research design""; ""Motivation and objectives of the study""; ""Research questions""
""Approach � explorative qualitative research""""Case study selection""; ""Data collection � a technographic approach""; ""Validity of the study""; ""Concluding remarks""; ""Chapter 3 Biotechnologies and the transformation of agricultural production systems""; ""Introduction � Historical trends in agricultural modernisation and industrialisation ""; ""Agricultural modernisation � From an imposed condition to an open-ended approach""; ""Industrialisation of agriculture � Issues of control in the Third Agro-Food order""
""Intellectual property � The crucial importance of ownership""""Recapitulation""; ""The relationship between technical design and social structures""; ""In conclusion: key elements of a conceptual framework""; ""Chapter 4 Transgenic insect resistance for the poor � Towards a win-win-win situation in Indian veg""; ""Introduction ""; ""The setup of a public private partnership for the development of Bt Brassica""; ""The material reconstruction of transgenic technology""; ""Tailoring the mode of commercialization""; ""Representation of farmers, rather than participation""
""The role of intellectual property and liability""""Discussion � Farmers as recipients of technology""; ""Chapter 5 Reconsidering the role of potato farmers in breeding and multiplication � Experiences of t""; ""Introduction ""; ""The International Potato Centre � Producing global public goods for potato farmers""; ""Challenging a trend towards genetic erosion in potato cultivation in the Andes""; ""Enabling farmers� seed potato production""; ""Working with cultural connotations � Genetic fingerprints as Kipu diagram""
""Discussion � Breeding technologies for a non-industrializing development strategy""""Chapter 6 Linking upstream genomics research with downstream development objectives � The challenge""; ""Introduction ""; ""The Generation Challenge Programme � Upstream genomics research for pro-poor agricultural innovation""; ""Targeting the poor � Farming systems, crops and traits""; ""Challenges for a science-led research programme""; ""Complementary innovation systems""; ""Complementarity in practice: different research partners and technology as a service""
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ISBN:9086866808
9789086866809
DOI:10.3920/978-90-8686-680-9

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