TY - SER
KW - biodiversity
KW - Africa
KW - developing countries
KW - economic policies
KW - forecasting
KW - germplasm resources
KW - plant biotechnology
KW - food security
KW - botany
KW - intellectual property/germplasm
KW - socioeconomics
AU - Calestous Juma
AB - As biotechnology grows in the agricultural world, the race is on for better seeds. The potential impacts resulting from biotechnological advances could be devastating. These changes will be unpredictable transformations in the global organization and distribution of production. This book examines the history of botany in the field of biotechnology. Various topics dealing with plant breeding and the seed industry discuss options Africa has for the future. Intellectual property rights and their protection are discussed. A case study involving germplasm and Kenya's agriculture is featured. This is a broad and encompassing discussion of the seed war.
AN - 94-03713 (duplicate number)
BT - African Centre for Technology Studies research series no. 1
CN - S494.5.B563J86 1989
CY - Princeton, NJ
DA - 01/1989
DB - Pennsylvania State University Libraries
LA - English
N2 - As biotechnology grows in the agricultural world, the race is on for better seeds. The potential impacts resulting from biotechnological advances could be devastating. These changes will be unpredictable transformations in the global organization and distribution of production. This book examines the history of botany in the field of biotechnology. Various topics dealing with plant breeding and the seed industry discuss options Africa has for the future. Intellectual property rights and their protection are discussed. A case study involving germplasm and Kenya's agriculture is featured. This is a broad and encompassing discussion of the seed war.
PB - Princeton University Press
PP - Princeton, NJ
PY - 1989
SN - 0-691-00378-5
EP - 288
ST - The Gene Hunters
T2 - African Centre for Technology Studies research series no. 1
TI - The gene hunters: Biotechnology and the scramble for seeds
UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19269376
ER -