Год выпуска: 2007 Издательство: Страниц: 224 ISBN: 1844074099
Описание
* With sixty countries now in the GM race, the rising Gene Revolution in agriculture is overtaking the Green Revolution of the 1960s and ’70s * The first assessment of both the GM reality in China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Argentina, the US and the EU and the consequences of GM crops for billions of people as the monetary and technological divide between rich and poor widens The high-yield selective breeding of the Green Revolution of the 1960s and ’70s is now being overtaken by the Gene Revolution--the development and spread of GM crops across the world. With over ninety million hectares already under cultivation and sixty countries conducting research, GM is reviled by some as a vast Pandora’s Box and corporate sell-out, while hailed by others as the necessary technological solution to stagnating agricultural output, ballooning populations, climate change and drought. Sandwiched in between are developing and transitional...
