Biotechnology for a Second Green Revolution in India

Socioeconomic, Political, and Public Policy Issues
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-93-327-0445-9
Verlag: Academic Foundation

Buch, Englisch, 434 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 235 mm

This book is the first of its kind in examining the role of biotechnology for reviving Indian agriculture and accelerating farmers’ incomes. It examines the empirical evidence in various agro-ecologies on already commercialised technologies, and also technologies on shelf like Bt brinjal, and herbicide tolerant maize and cotton. The political economy behind the public policies for biotechnologies, reasons for continuing controversies, and impacts of labelling policies and seed-pricing controls are examined in greater detail. In the past few years, discussion on genetically engineered crops has been particularly contentious, in the backdrop of concerns on food security and dominance of multinationals. However, dispassionate analysis of these technologies for their usefulness in Indian context has been missing. This book addresses this gap in extant literature and contains chapters by several renowned scholars from India and abroad, and can be a useful guide to students, civil society, policy makers, and researchers working on Indian agriculture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Spitzentechnologiesektor
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acronyms
- About the Editors/Contributors
- Foreword
- Director’s Message
- Acknowledgements
- Biotechnology for Second Green Revolution in India: Overview of Issues
- Section 1
- Macro Issues
- 1. Politics of Biotechnology: Ideas, Risk, and Interest in Cases from India
- 2. The Competing Policy Paradigms of Agricultural Biotechnology: Implications and Opportunities for Emerging and Developing Economies
- 3. Labelling GM Food in India: Anticipating the Effects on GM Brinjal and Rice Marketing Chains
- 4. Bt Cotton in India: A Review of Adoption, Government Interventions and Investment Initiatives
- 5. Welfare Gains from Application of First Generation Biotechnology in Indian Agriculture: The Case of Bt Cotton
- Section 2
- New Technologies on the Horizon
- 6. Potential Economic Benefits from Adoption of Bt Brinjal Hybrids in India
- 7. The Potential Economic Impacts of Herbicide Tolerant Maize in Developing Countries: A Case Study
- 8. Technology Adoption and its Impact on Labour Use: The Case for Herbicide Tolerant Technologies
- Section 3
- Evidence on Performance of Bt Cotton
- 9. Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Private Sector R&D on Cotton Productivity in India
- 10. Socioeconomic Impacts of Bt Cotton Adoption in India: Evidence from Panel Data
- 11. Economic and Environmental Performance of Bt Cotton in India
- 12. Bt Cotton Cultivation in Maharashtra: An Economic Analysis Based on Field Data
- 13. Technology Diffusion and Adoption in Cotton Cultivation: Emerging Scenario in Gujarat
- 14. On the ‘Failure of Bt Cotton’: Analysing a Decade of Experience
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

N. Chandrasekhara Rao is currently Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi. Earlier, he was Faculty at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad. He was Fulbright Visiting Fellow in Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, during 2010-11. His research interests include: strategy of agricultural development, value chains, technological change and innovations, labour market and poverty reduction. Earlier he published: Biotechnology in Indian Agriculture: Potential, Performance and Concerns (Academic Foundation, New Delhi). His latest book was: Organised Retailing and Agri-Business: Implications of New Supply Chains on the Indian Farm Economy (Springer India, New Delhi).

Carl E. Pray is a Distinguished Professor in the Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics Department, the School for Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The focus of his research is agricultural science and technology policy in China, South Asia, Africa and Latin America. Dr Pray is the President of the International Consortium for Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR). The results of his research have been published in 80 journal articles including Science, Nature, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Research Policy and in 45 book chapters.

Ronald Herring has taught political economy and political ecology at Cornell University since 1991 as Professor of Government and International Professor of Agriculture and Rural Development. Ron has been faculty advisor to Asha Cornell and worked on production and teaching of the MOOC Science and Politics of the GMO (EdX/CornellX 2016, 2017). He has been editor of Comparative Political Studies, and remains on its editorial board, among others. Among his writings are several books including: Transgenics and the Poor (Routledge 2007; 2008), awarded The Dudley Seers Memorial Prize (London 2008), and The Oxford Handbook of Food, Politics and Society (2015).