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Author(s): Sally Brooks
ISBN(s): 9781849711005, 1849711003
Edition: First Edition
File Details: PDF, 1.46 MB
Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1136531793 
ISBN 13: 9781136531798
Author: Sally Brooks

Biofortification – the enrichment of staple food crops with essential micronutrients – has been heralded as a uniquely sustainable solution to the problem of micronutrient deficiency or ‘hidden hunger’. Considerable attention and resources are being directed towards the biofortification of rice – the world’s most important food crop. Through an in-depth analysis of international rice biofortification efforts across the US, Philippines and China, this book provides an important critique of such goal-oriented, top-down approaches. These approaches, the author argues, exemplify a model of global, ‘public goods’ science that is emerging within complex, international research networks. It provides vital lessons for those researching and making decisions about science and research policy, showing that if this model becomes entrenched, it is likely to channel resources towards the search for ‘silver bullet’ solutions at the expense of more incremental approaches that respond to locality, diversity and the complex and uncertain interactions between people and their environments. The author proposes a series of key changes to institutions and practices that might allow more context-responsive alternatives to emerge. These issues are particularly important now as increasing concerns over food security are leading donors and policy makers to commit to ambitious visions of ‘impact at scale’ – visions which may never become a reality and may preclude more effective pathways from being pursued. Published in association with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
 

Rice Biofortification Lessons for Global Science and Development Pathways to Sustainability 1st Edition Table of contents:

  1. Global Science, Public Goods?
  2. Biofortification as Biopolitics
  3. Focus on Rice: Iconic Crop, Model Cereal
  4. On Researching International Science Policy Processes
  5. Chapter Preview
  6. ‘Old Lessons and New Paradigms’:1Locating Biofortification
  7. International Crop Research and the CGIAR
  8. IRRI: A ‘Definitive Centre for Rice Research’
  9. The Green Revolution and ‘Miracle Rice’
  10. Answering the Critics: Expansion or Re-Orientation?
  11. Synergy or survival? From Farming Systems Research to Eco-Regional Approaches
  12. Towards ‘Strategic Research’: System-Wide Initiatives and Challenge Programs
  13. Pathways Linking Agriculture, Nutrition and Health
  14. Agriculture-Nutrition-Health Linkages: A Brief History
  15. International Nutrition and the Shift to Micronutrients
  16. Micronutrients and the CGIAR
  17. ‘Old Lessons and New Paradigms’
  18. Building the Argument: The Case of Iron Rice
  19. Introduction
  20. A Win–Win Proposition: Nutrition and Yield
  21. A food systems approach
  22. It’s in the seed
  23. A one-time, low-cost investment
  24. IR68144: ‘A Serendipitous Discovery’
  25. Iron Rice: The Silver Bullet?
  26. The Food Fortification Act
  27. Proof of Concept: The Sisters of Nutrition
  28. Bioavailability: The Final Unknown?
  29. Constructing the Study
  30. A Research Family
  31. From IR68144 to MS13: ‘A Special Variety’
  32. Contested Findings
  33. National Release: In the Shadow of Hybrid Rice
  34. Rice Self-Sufficiency is National Security
  35. Focus on Yield: ‘Gloria Rice’
  36. From Nutrition to Hunger Mitigation
  37. Conclusion
  38. An Institutional Model? The Case of Golden Rice
  39. Introduction
  40. Rice Biotechnology: Laying the Foundations
  41. Vitamin A Deficiency: Construction of a Public Health Problem
  42. Golden Rice: A Scientific Breakthrough
  43. A Science Policy Controversy
  44. Freedom to Operate
  45. Proof of concept
  46. Granting Access, Keeping Control
  47. Framing ‘Acceptance’: The Case of the Philippines
  48. Conclusion
  49. An Alliance Around an Idea: The Shifting Boundaries of HarvestPlus
  50. Introduction
  51. Back to Basics? A Challenge Program
  52. A Turning Point: Enrolling the Gates Foundation
  53. ‘A New Class of Philanthropist’
  54. Establishing HarvestPlus
  55. HarvestPlus Comes to IRRI
  56. Interdisciplinary Encounters
  57. Negotiating Breeding Targets
  58. Iron Rice Revisited
  59. Brokers or Gatekeepers? Organizational Tensions and ‘Global Science’
  60. Constructing Demand, Predicting Impact
  61. Impact and ‘Spin-Offs’
  62. Business as Usual? The ProVitaMinRice Consortium
  63. Conclusion
  64. Global Science, Public Goods? A Synthesis
  65. International Research Partnerships: Rhetoric and Reality
  66. Towards Interdisciplinary Integration?
  67. De-linking Impact and Context
  68. GM or Not GM – Is that the Question?
  69. Boundary Terms and ‘Escape Hatches’
  70. Conclusion
  71. Locating and Engaging ‘Users’
  72. Rethinking Upstream–Downstream Relations

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