GM crop debate in India draws a complex mix of agrarian, environmental, legal and
development discourses woven together by pro and anti GM actors within a wider set of …

Science is an essential social activity that emerges for a particular society concerning
present social context for innovating modern technologies that can deal with the problem of …

The sustainable growth in agriculture faces many challenges owing to the limited availability
of land and water besides the biotic stresses (pests, insects) and abiotic stresses (drought …

Sustainability is not simply a property of a technology but a matter of how that technology is
integrated into local agricultural practices farmers differing in caste, education and …

Cotton production has been very much bountiful in the regions of india, circling the states
like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka …

This PhD thesis investigates the public controversies about the risks of transgenic crops in
India and Europe. Combining the perspective of Science, Technology and Society Studies …

Background Cotton is one of the oldest crops in the world. About 60 million people are
directly engaged in cotton textiles and processing works. Cotton is an important cash crop. In …

Over the past three decades, biotechnology industry has emerged as a vital and dynamic
source of new technologies for the pharmaceutical and agricultural chemical industries …

Figure 1: Laboratory experimentation with new GM crop varieties, Swaminathan Research
Foundation, Chennai (source: author, 2013) 16 Figure 2: Transgenic insertion of gene into …

The objective of the present paper is to identify the determinants of the form of collaboration
initiated between an upstream innovator and a downstream producer in order to incorporate …