Beyond the Genome: Genetically modified crops in Africa and the implications for Genome Editing

JS Rock, MA Schnurr, A Kingiri, D Glover… - Development and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Genome editing—a plant‐breeding technology that facilitates the manipulation of genetic
traits within living organisms—has captured the imagination of scholars and professionals …

Knowledge politics and the Bt cotton success narrative in Burkina Faso

JK Luna, B Dowd-Uribe - World Development, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Burkina Faso's 2008 Bt cotton adoption was Africa's largest genetically modified
(GM) crop introduction principally for small farmers, and became its most celebrated success …

[图书][B] We are not starving: The struggle for food sovereignty in Ghana

JS Rock - 2022 - books.google.com
This critical text is a timely ethnography of how global powers, local resistance, and capital
flows are shaping contemporary African foodways. Ghana was one of the first countries …

Building an alliance for biotechnology in Africa

R Schurman - Journal of Agrarian Change, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Scholars and activists working from within a political economy perspective often fail to
explore the distinct motives, interests and behaviours of powerful actors who appear to be …

Peasant essentialism in GMO debates: Bt cotton in Burkina Faso

JK Luna - Journal of Agrarian Change, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Amidst polarized global debates about genetically modified (GM) crops, much attention has
focused on Burkina Faso, where farmers grew Bt cotton from 2008 to 2015 in the first …

Will gene-edited and other GM crops fail sustainable food systems?

AK Wilson - Rethinking food and agriculture, 2021 - Elsevier
The role of genetically modified (GM) crops in supporting sustainable food systems is an
ongoing controversy. Underlying this controversy, I will argue, are radically different …

Contested fields: an analysis of anti-GMO politics on Hawai'i Island

C Gupta - Agriculture and human values, 2018 - Springer
This paper details the evolution of activism against genetically modified organisms on the
Big Island of Hawai'i. It offers an explanation for the ability of rural residents on the Big Island …

Seeds and places: The geographies of transgenic crops in the global south

B Dowd-Uribe, D Glover, MA Schnurr - Geoforum, 2014 - Elsevier
The global supply of dietary energy reached 121 per cent of the global requirement in 2010–
2012, continuing a steady rise from 114 per cent 20 years earlier. 1 This substantial increase …

Civil society, everyday life and the possibilities for development studies

S Peck - Geography Compass, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Civil society is one of the most contentious terms in political thought. There is considerable,
and highly significant, difference between academic debate about the meaning of 'civil …

Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing

J Sean Rock, M Schnurr, A Kingiri, D Glover… - 2023 - opendocs.ids.ac.uk
Genome editing—a plant-breeding technology that facilitates the manipulation of genetic
traits within living organisms—has captured the imagination of scholars and professionals …