From the global politics of scientific advice to solar home systems in Kenya. From the GM crops debate to living with climate uncertainty in India. The STEPS Centre and our partners around…
Best of STEPS 2013: Science and technology for development
Big stories, little stories
This is the (slightly edited) text of my talk at Communicate 2013, in a session called “liberating stories”. The pictures are some of the slides I used. The brief was…
Good & evil: two articles on closing down the debate on GM crops
Is it right to call opponents of GM crops ‘wicked’? In a recent interview, Owen Paterson denounced in starkly moralistic language people whom he sees as holding up progress on…
Responses to frequently asked questions on genetically-modified crops and development
GM Rice / BASF / Flickr Creative Commons By Andy Stirling, co-director of the STEPS Centre Questions are never far from the headlines about how the world can farm more fairly,…
GM crops and biotechnology
GM crops, Golden Rice and other related technologies polarise opinion: they are the solution to the global food crisis; or they are ‘frankenfoods’ causing irreversible environmental harm. Concerns about poverty,…
‘Golden Rice’ and the GM crop debate
Golden Rice grain compared to white rice grain in screenhouse of Golden Rice plants / IRRI Guest blog by Sally Brooks, Researcher and Associate Tutor at the University of York, and…