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Author Juma, Calestous

Title The Gene Hunters : Biotechnology and the Scramble for Seeds
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (303 pages)
Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Contents Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; Glossary ; Introduction; 1 Genetic Resources and Socio-economic Evolution; Epistemology and environmental expansionism; Genetic sources of social change; Crisis and adaptation in Africa; Divergent interpretations; 2 Explorations in Historical Botany; Early plant hunters; Institutional and technological innovation; Genetic resources and the British Empire; US historical botany; 3 Genetic Resources and World Agriculture; Japanese antecedents; Plant breeding and the seed industry; Gene banks and food security; The changing economy of nature
4. Branching Points in BiotechnologyBiotechnology industry; Institutional issues; Risk, time and regulation; The last harvest?; 5. Life as Intellectual Property; Patents and innovation; Plant breeders' rights; Patenting life forms; Seed wars; 6. Germplasm and Kenya's Agriculture: A Case Study; Plant introductions; Colonial law and genetic resources; Conservation in modern Kenya; Kenya and the global gene banks; 7. The Way Ahead: Policy Options for Africa; Evolution of economic systems; Science and technology policy; Genetic resources and biotechnology; Agricultural conversion
Institutional innovationConclusions and Conjectures; Appendix: Institutions Conserving Genetic Resources; Bibliography; Index
Summary The world is on the verge of receiving new life forms that will profoundly and irrevocably change the global economy: the ""gene hunters"" who first cloned the gene in 1973 are now not only modifying existing species but also creating new plants and animals. Ready or not for such awesome power, the human race has put itself in a position to govern evolution. What will we do with the abilities we now command? asks this broad and stimulating book on the role of plant material in economic development. Writing in a style that is easily understandable even to those with no background in biotechn
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Subject Plant biotechnology -- Africa -- Forecasting
Germplasm resources, Plant -- Utilization -- Africa
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Economic policy
Germplasm resources, Plant -- Utilization
Plant biotechnology -- Forecasting
SUBJECT Developing countries -- Economic policy
Subject Africa
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400860258
1400860253