Title Starved for science : how biotechnology is being kept out of Africa / Robert Paarlberg ; [foreword by Norman Borlaug and Jimmy Carter].

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Edition	1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Description	1 online resource (xv, 235 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Note	Originally published: 2008.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-219) and index.
Contents	Foreword / by Norman E. Borlaug and Jimmy Carter -- Preface -- Introduction : Why are Africans rejecting biotechnology? -- Why rich countries dislike agricultural GMOs -- Downgrading agricultural science in rich countries -- Withdrawing support for agricultural science in Africa -- Keeping genetically engineered crops out of Africa -- Drought-tolerant crops : only for the rich? -- Conclusion : an imperialism of rich tastes.
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Subject	Agricultural biotechnology -- Africa.
	Agricultural biotechnology.
	Africa.
	Crops -- Genetic engineering -- Africa.
	Crops -- Genetic engineering.
	Agriculture and state -- Africa.
	Agriculture and state.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Paarlberg, Robert L. Starved for science. 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009 9780674033474 0674033477 (OCoLC)310156265
ISBN	9780674041745 (electronic book)
	0674041747 (electronic book)
	9780674033474
	9780674029736 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0674029739 (cloth ; alkaline paper)