
| Biotechnology and the Future of World Agriculture (GRAIN, 1991) |
| (introduction...) |
| Acknowledgements |
| About grain |
| About the author |
| Abbreviations |
| Prologue |
| The fourth resource |
| Agriculture in crisis |
![]() | (introduction...) |
![]() | The soil and water crisis |
![]() | The productivity crisis |
![]() | Through the looking glass |
![]() | The hidden harvest |
![]() | The problems not addressed |
![]() | Biotechnology, the solution? |
| The tools |
![]() | (introduction...) |
![]() | Cutting and pasting |
![]() | About language and limitations |
![]() | Culturing cells and tissues |
![]() | Controlling the process |
![]() | A new threshold? |
| The actors |
![]() | (introduction...) |
![]() | Public or private? |
![]() | Dominance of transnational corporations (TNCs) |
![]() | The concentration within |
| Providing the inputs |
![]() | (introduction...) |
![]() | The biased focus: herbicide tolerance |
![]() | Eroding the options |
![]() | Artificial solutions? |
| Transforming the output |
![]() | (introduction...) |
![]() | The circle of sugar |
![]() | The chocolate crop |
![]() | The battle for vegetable oils |
![]() | Interchanging products, markets and producers |
| Controlling the profit |
![]() | (introduction...) |
![]() | An historical appraisal |
![]() | The great reversal |
![]() | Tightening the grip: the push for patents on life |
![]() | Box: Twelve Reasons to say no to life patents |
![]() | The implications |
| Appropriate biotechnology? |
![]() | (introduction...) |
![]() | The IARCs and the privatization of biotechnology |
![]() | Third world national efforts to get involved |
| The original biotechnologist |
![]() | (introduction...) |
![]() | Diversity for production |
![]() | Multiple cropping, multiple benefits |
![]() | Biotechnology for the people |
![]() | Promoting people's participation |
| Epilogue |
The Fourth Resource
Henk Hobbelink
Zed Books Ltd
London and New
Jersey