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Science,Agriculture&Politics Of Policy

by Scoones Ian
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788125029441
  • Binding: Hardcover
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  • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
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  • Pages: 420
  • Original Price: INR 795.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 880 grams
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Science, Agriculture and the Politics of Policy examines the intersections of globalization, technology and politics through a detailed, empirically-based examination of agricultural biotechnology in India. The focus is on Bangalore and Karnataka, a part of India which has seen a massive growth in biotech enterprises, experimentation with GM cotton and a contested policy debate about the role biotechnology should play in economic development. The book asks what does this new suite of technologies mean - for society, for politics and for the way agriculture, food and rural livelihoods are thought about? Can biotech deliver a second Green Revolution, and so transform agriculture and rescue the countryside and its people from crisis and poverty? Or is it more complex than this? Through a detailed case study, the aim of the book is to discuss, question and refine these broader debates, locating an understanding of biotechnology firmly within an understanding of society and politics.

Ian Schoones is an agricultural ecologist by training whose research has focused on the intersections between science, policy and local knowledges in the context of development. Much of his work has focused on agriculture and pastoralism in sub-Saharan Africa. His recent work on policy processes includes the 2003 book Understanding Environmental Policy Processes . Since 1995 he has been a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in the UK.

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