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Nature 460, 797-798 (13 August 2009) | doi:10.1038/460797a; Published online 12 August 2009
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Africa's biotechnology battle
Ian Scoones1 & Dominic Glover2
Abstract
An influential book accuses Europe of keeping genetically modified crops out of Africa, but, by polarizing the debate, it undermines efforts to improve the continent's agriculture, warn Ian Scoones and Dominic Glover.
BOOK REVIEWED-Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa
by Robert Paarlberg
Harvard University Press: 2008. 256 pp. $24.95 (hbk), $16.95 (pbk)
Starved for Science is a troubling polemic. Political scientist Robert Paarlberg argues that genetically modified (GM) crops could solve Africa's hunger and poverty, but that, through inadequate investment, external lobbying and stringent regulations, farmers are being deprived of the technology and prevented from achieving agricultural success.
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