Biotechnology and agricultural development
Subtitle: transgenic cotton, rural institutions and resource-poor farmers
By: edited by Robert Tripp.
Contributors: Tripp, Robert Burnet.
Series: Routledge explorations in environmental economics -- 19
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780415499637; 9780415543842; 9780203876466
Subjects: Cotton -- Biotechnology -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries -- Case studies; Agricultural biotechnology -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries; Agriculture and state -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: This book addresses the continuing controversy over the potential impact of genetically modified (GM) crops in developing countries. Supporters of the technology claim it offers one of the best hopes for increasing agricultural production and reducing rural poverty, while opponents see it as an untested intervention that will bring corporate control of peasant farming. The book examines the issues by reviewing the experience of GM, insect-resistant cotton, the most widely grown GM crop in developing countries.
Table of contents: title: Biotechnology and agricultural development / Robert Tripp; title: Cotton production and technology / Robert Tripp; title: Development, agronomic performance and sustainability of transgenic cotton for insect control / Ann M. Showalter ... [et al.]; title: Transgenic cotton. Assessing economic performance in the field / Robert Tripp; title: Transgenic cotton and institutional performance / Robert Tripp; title: Farmers' seed and pest control management for Bt cotton in China / Jikun Huang ... [et al.]; title: India's experience with Bt cotton: case studies from Gujarat and Maharashtra / N. Lalitha, Bharat Ramaswami, and P.K. Viswanathan; title: The socioeconomic impact of transgenic cotton in Colombia / Patricia Zambrano ... [et al.]; title: Ten years of Bt cotton in South Africa: putting the smallholder experience into context / Marnus Gouse.