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Why do modern agricultural techniques, which are environmentally damaging, continue to be used? This path-breaking book seeks the answer to that question in an understanding of evolution of agricultural research in its cultural context.
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DOMINIC HOGG is currently Senior Consultant with ECOTEC Research and Consulting where he works exclusively on environment policy issues. He was awarded a MacArthur Studentship from the University of Cambridge in 1991, from where he obtained his Ph.D. Following a period in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, he was a consultant for Friends of the Earth, working on the linkages between tropical rainforest destruction and IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programmes. He has campaigned on environmental issues for many years and has been active in many aspects of the use and exploitation of genetic resources.
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Book Title: Technological Change In Agriculture
Book Subtitle: Locking in to Genetic Uniformity
Authors: Dominic Hogg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333981252
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-75139-8Published: 11 February 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-41252-5Published: 01 January 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-0-333-98125-2Published: 11 February 2000
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 296
Topics: Development Economics, Pollution, general, Agriculture, Biochemistry, general