Contesting Africa s New Green Revolution (e-bog) af Jacqueline A. Ignatova, Ignatova

Contesting Africa s New Green Revolution e-bog

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Genetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the Global South, despite remaining deeply controversial. Proponents hail them as an example of 'pro-poor' innovation, while critics regard them as a threat to food sovereignty and the environment. The promotion of biotechnology is an integral part of 'new Green Revolution for Africa' interventions and is also...
E-bog 265,81 DKK
Forfattere Jacqueline A. Ignatova, Ignatova (forfatter)
Forlag Zed Books
Udgivet 20 maj 2021
Længde 216 sider
Genrer 1HFDH
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781786996589
Genetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the Global South, despite remaining deeply controversial. Proponents hail them as an example of 'pro-poor' innovation, while critics regard them as a threat to food sovereignty and the environment. The promotion of biotechnology is an integral part of 'new Green Revolution for Africa' interventions and is also intimately linked to the rise of 'philanthrocapitalism,' which advances business solutions to address the problem of poverty. Through interviews with farmers, policymakers and agricultural scientists, Jacqueline Ignatova shows how efforts to transform the seed sector in northern Ghana one of the key laboratories of this 'new Green Revolution' may serve to exacerbate the inequality it was notionally intended to address. But she also argues that its effects in Ghana have been far more complex than either side of the debate has acknowledged, with local farmers proving adept at blending traditional and modern agricultural methods that subvert the interests of global agribusiness.