Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

This work explains why poor African farmers are being denied access to productive technologies, particularly genetically engineered seeds with improved resistance to insects and drought. He traces this obstacle to the current opposition to farm science in prosperous countries.

• Author
• Robert Paarlberg, Jimmy Carter, Norman E. Bourlag

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 235

• Publisher
• Harvard University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780674029736

• Genres
• science, economics, politics, africa, food, agriculture

• Release date
• 2008