Biotechnology and the Political Ecology of Information in India
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In today’s debates on transgenic, or genetically modified (GM), crops for third world farmers, some of the most diverse positions have come from the third world itself. For instance, Indian physicist-cum-activist Vandana Shiva is one of the world’s most potent opponents of GM crops, while Kenyan biologist Florence Wambugu is a leading proponent (and practitioner) of crop genetic modification and literally a larger-than-life figure at Monsanto headquarters. What these disparate writers agree on, however, is the importance of indigenous cultural farming practices. Shiva (1996) writes that:
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