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

In "Starved for Science" Robert Paarlberg explains why poor African farmers are 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. Having embraced agricultural science to become well-fed themselves, those in wealthy countries are now instructing Africans - on the most dubious grounds - not to do the same;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.