Genetically modified crops and the ‘food crisis’: discourse and material impacts
| dc.contributor.author | Stone, Glenn Davis | * |
| dc.contributor.author | Glover, Dominic | * |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-02-21T10:09:32Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2013-02-21T10:09:32Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-06-07 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0961-4524 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/09614524.2011.562876 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10546/270016 | en |
| dc.description | A surge of media reports and rhetorical claims depicted genetically modified (GM) crops as a solution to the ‘global food crisis’ manifested in the sudden spike in world food prices during 2007–08. Broad claims were made about the potential of GM technologies to tackle the crisis, even though the useful crops and traits typically invoked had yet to be developed, and despite the fact that real progress had in fact been made by using conventional breeding. The case vividly illustrates the instrumental use of food-crisis rhetoric to promote GM crops.<p>This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p> | en |
| dc.format.extent | 7 | en |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | Oxfam GB | en |
| dc.publisher | Routledge | en |
| dc.relation.url | http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/genetically-modified-crops-and-the-food-crisis-discourse-and-material-impacts-270016 | |
| dc.subject | Food and livelihoods | |
| dc.title | Genetically modified crops and the ‘food crisis’: discourse and material impacts | en |
| dc.type | Journal article | en |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1364-9213 | en |
| dc.identifier.journal | Development in Practice | en |
| oxfam.signoff.status | For public use – can be shared outside Oxfam | en |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Agriculture | |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Food security | |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Food production | |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Technology | |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Development in Practice Journal | |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | DiP | |
| prism.issuename | Global food-price shocks and poor people: themes and case studies | en |
| prism.number | 4-5 | en |
| prism.volume | 21 | en |
| dc.year.issuedate | 2011 | en |