Governing Agricultural Sustainability - Global Lessons From Gm Crops

Informed by rich, ethnographic research with farmers, scientists and publics in three global rising power settings - Brazil, India and Mexico - this book provides a fresh understanding on how GM crops are being experienced in different locales, on why the controversy has taken varied forms internationally and by what pathways to move towards more sustainable agricultural technologies. It offers a new pathway to governing GM crops informed by recent debates on responsible innovation, agricultural sustainability and social justice.

About the author

Phil Macnaghten is Professor of Technology and International Development at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He was Professor of Geography at Durham University (UK), and Founder Director of Durham University's Institute of Hazard and Risk Research. He coordinated the GMFuturos research project.
Susana Carro-Ripalda is a social anthropologist, Honorary Research Fellow at Durham University, and currently Visiting Researcher at the Universidad del País Vasco, Spain. She was Senior Research Fellow and GMFuturos Project Manager in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University, and has lectured at the universities of Durham, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Product details

• Authors: Phil (University of Durham Macnaghten
• Assisted by: Susana Carro-Ripalda (Editor), Carro-Ripalda Susana (Editor), Phil Macnaghten (Editor), Macnaghten Phil (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.2015
• EAN: 9781138891777
• ISBN: 978-1-138-89177-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Pathways to Sustainability
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Food Industry, Sustainable agriculture, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Agricultural science, Development Studies, Agriculture & Related Industries