2016
DOI: 10.1111/joac.12167
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Building an Alliance for Biotechnology in Africa

Abstract: Scholars and activists working from within a political economy perspective often fail to explore the distinct motives, interests and behaviours of powerful actors who appear to be working 'as one' on a common agenda. Such is the case in recent analyses of efforts to promote the use of biotechnology in Africa. While the critical literature largely focuses on the attempt to create what Peter Newell calls 'bio-hegemony', the present paper explores the diverse interests and tensions that have to be worked out in o… Show more

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“…This paper revisits Stone's (2002, p. 616) call to scrutinize the polarized and often manipulative positions in the GMO debates in part to 'increase the empirical veracity of the global debate'. In doing so, I do not address many important but related conversations about GM crops, including the deep ideological divides and different interpretations of the stakes of GM crops or definitions of risk (Fitting, 2010;Kinchy, 2012;Schurman & Munro, 2010), questions about the relationships between industry funding/influence, biotechnology and scientific research and knowledge (Glenna, Welsh, Ervin, Lacy, & Biscotti, 2011;Moore, Kleinman, Hess, & Frickel, 2011;Schurman, 2017), and broader conversations about GM crops as embedded in a capitalist food regime, including questions about intellectual property and seed enclosures (Kloppenburg, 2004(Kloppenburg, , 2010McAfee, 2003), or the structural causes of poverty and hunger (Jansen & Gupta, 2009;Moseley, 2017;Tripp, 2009).…”
Section: Debates Over Gm Crops and Peasant Essentialismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This paper revisits Stone's (2002, p. 616) call to scrutinize the polarized and often manipulative positions in the GMO debates in part to 'increase the empirical veracity of the global debate'. In doing so, I do not address many important but related conversations about GM crops, including the deep ideological divides and different interpretations of the stakes of GM crops or definitions of risk (Fitting, 2010;Kinchy, 2012;Schurman & Munro, 2010), questions about the relationships between industry funding/influence, biotechnology and scientific research and knowledge (Glenna, Welsh, Ervin, Lacy, & Biscotti, 2011;Moore, Kleinman, Hess, & Frickel, 2011;Schurman, 2017), and broader conversations about GM crops as embedded in a capitalist food regime, including questions about intellectual property and seed enclosures (Kloppenburg, 2004(Kloppenburg, , 2010McAfee, 2003), or the structural causes of poverty and hunger (Jansen & Gupta, 2009;Moseley, 2017;Tripp, 2009).…”
Section: Debates Over Gm Crops and Peasant Essentialismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…1 I spent a majority of my time conducting participant observation with activists that make up the Food Sovereignty Platform, an umbrella group of activist and civil society organizations that have been opposing GMOs since 2013. Moreover, following Schnurr and Gore ( 2015 ) and Schurman ( 2016 ), I sought to understand the complex international donors and actors involved the GMO projects. To that end, I conducted participant observation and semi-structured interviews with Ghanaian scientists and regulators involved in GMO projects and development practitioners.…”
Section: Historical Clarificationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Ghana, PBS works alongside the Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) to lobby for public and governmental acceptance of GMOs. OFAB was created by the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), an intermediary organization founded by the Rockefeller Foundation to act as a broker between private industry, African governments, and African state research councils (Schurman, 2016 ). And it is AATF, not Ghanaian scientists, who brought bt cowpea and nitrogen-use efficient, water-use efficient, salt tolerant (NEWEST) rice to Ghana (Ignatova, 2015 ).…”
Section: Historical Clarificationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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