Rice biofortification
Subtitle: lessons for global science and development
By: Sally Brooks
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781849710992; 9781849711005
Description: Through an in-depth analysis of international rice biofortification efforts across the US, Philippines and China, this title provides an important critique of such goal-oriented, top-down approaches.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Old lessons and new paradigms: locating biofortification; title: Building the argument: the case of iron rice; title: An institutional model? the case of Golden Rice; title: An alliance around an idea: the shifting boundaries of HarvestPlus; title: Global science, public goods? A synthesis.