Drawing on a socio-technical systems perspective we compare the ways in which novel genetically modified (GM) crop artefacts, related devices and techniques, actors, practices, and institutions have been linked together,…
Biotechnology and its configurations: GM cotton production on large and small farms in Argentina
Grassroots innovation movements: challenges and contributions
Technologies for social inclusion in Latin America are a recent manifestation of grassroots innovation movements whose global activities go back to appropriate technology in the 1970s and earlier. Common to…
Agricultura transgénica y regulaciones: el caso del algodón en la Provincia del Chaco, Argentina
La incorporación de nuevas tecnologías en el agro comporta beneficios, riesgos e inequidades diferentes para distintos tipos de usuarios. Las regulaciones (leyes, normas, resoluciones, acuerdos, etc.) pueden contribuir a controlar…
Innovation, Sustainability, Development and Social Inclusion: Lessons from Latin America
This paper is one of a series of working papers relating regional experiences to ideas proposed by the New Manifesto, following on round table discussions held in Venezuela, Argentina, and…
Problemas de la regulación en semillas. El caso del algodón transgénico en el Chaco
Este artículo discute las regulaciones sobre algodón transgénico desde el punto de vista de las prácticas y las necesidades de los agricultores de menor tamaño de la provincia de Chaco,…
Regulatory harmonization and agricultural biotechnology in Argentina and China: Critical assessment of state-centered and decentered approaches
The international harmonization of technology-related regulations seeks certain norms across diverse contexts. Harmonization efforts are based primarily on the promulgation of state-centered command and control forms of regulation, though they…
Rethinking Regulation: international norms and local realities
Technologies are finding their way to more remote and diverse corners of the globe, bringing with them significant opportunities for human development, but also risks – to individuals, the environment,…
Rethinking Regulation: International Harmonisation and Local Realities
The STEPS Rethinking Regulation project is examining the harmonising regulation of two widely available technologies – transgenic cotton seeds and antibiotics – in China and Argentina. We wish to explore…
Regulating Technology: International Harmonization and Local Realities
Adrian Ely, Adrian Smith and Patrick van Zwanenberg Earthscan/Routledge, 2011 Buy this book About this book Examining the regulation of technologies, this book explores how the drive to harmonize regulatory…
Spanish version: Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto
Spanish (Latin American) translation of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto.