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Rice biofortification : lessons for global science and development / Sally Brooks.

Title
Rice biofortification : lessons for global science and development / Sally Brooks.
Author
Brooks, Sally
Publication
London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.

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Description
xiv, 178 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Through an in-depth analysis of international rice biofortification efforts across the US, Philippines and China, this title provides an important critique of such goal-oriented, top-down approaches.
Series Statement
Pathways to sustainability series
Uniform Title
  • Environmental Information Services Collection.
  • Pathways to sustainability series
Subject
  • Rice > Breeding
  • Crop improvement
  • Food supply
  • Biotechnology
  • Food Supply
Note
  • Errata slip insterted.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-170) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
'Old lessons and new paradigms' : locating biofortification -- Building the argument: the case of iron rice -- An institutional model? The case of Golden Rice -- An alliance around an idea : the shifting boundaries of HarvestPlus -- Global science, public goods? A synthesis.
ISBN
  • 9781849710992 (hardback)
  • 1849710996 (hardback)
  • 9781849711005 (pbk.)
  • 1849711003 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2010017151
OCLC
  • 611037306
  • SCSB-11688455
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library