"Food's Frontier" provides a survey of pioneering agricultural research projects underway in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, India, China, Chile, Brazi...
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Sep 28, 2008
finn
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by visiting nine regions around the world where a foundation has granted money towards research into increasing food security, manning presents a picture of the cutting-edge technology and ideas in plant science. it would be easy to try to cut this down to an argument for or against genetically modifying crops, but to simplify the issue would go against the whole point of the book, and narrow the broad focus to only the most controversial method of the many the scientists are using. overall the
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Mar 15, 2008
Kristen
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An interesting take on issues facing agriculture in developing countries and possible solutions. A journalist's account - not that of an expert in the issues - so the discussion of issues seems incomplete in some ways, but also has quite a bit of interesting information.
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