Many people and organisations have sought to promote genetically modified (GM, transgenic) crops as a ‘pro-poor’ technology. However, developing-country farmers’ experiences with GM crops have been mixed. Some farmers have…
Undying Promise: Agricultural Biotechnology’s Pro-poor Narrative, Ten Years On
Re-framing Resilience: Trans-disciplinarity, Reflexivity and Progressive Sustainability – a Symposium Report
The concept of resilience is now capturing high interest across academic, policy and popular debate. In a world where threats – whether linked to climate change, epidemic disease, or fluctuating…
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…
The International Response to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: Science, Policy and Politics
Over the last decade, the avian influenza virus, H5N1, has spread across most of Asia and Europe and parts of Africa. In some countries – including Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Bangladesh,…
Social-ecological resilience and socio-technical transitions: critical issues for sustainability governance
Technology contributes both positively and negatively to the resilience of ‘social-ecological systems’, but is not considered in depth in that literature. A technology-focused literature on sociotechnical transitions shares some of…
Time to outbreed animal science? A cattle-breeding system exploiting structural unpredictability: the WoDaaBe herders in Niger
Cutting-edge research on agri-food systems contends that mainstream agricultural science is ill-equipped to address issues of complexity, diversity and uncertainty. The paper tackles this issue looking at animal breeding, an…
Understanding Governance: pathways to sustainability
The challenges of understanding the governance of dynamic social, technological and environmental systems, and thier implications for sustainability and social justice, are addressed.
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…
The Politics of Asbestos: Understandings of Risk, Disease and Protest
Linda Waldman Earthscan/Routledge, 2011 Buy this book About this book Around the world, asbestos-related diseases are on the increase. Meanwhile, in many newly-industrialising and developing countries, asbestos use continues unabated….
Rice Biofortification: Lessons for Global Science and Development
You can download the Accepted Manuscript of Chapter 4 of this book – An Alliance Around an Idea: The Shifting Boundaries of HarvestPlus Download Chapter 4 Buy this book About…