Starved for Science Quotes

“In a world badly divided between rich and poor, the policy preferences and regulatory standards of the rich tend to prevail, sometimes to the disadvantage of the poor.”
― Robert Paarlberg, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

“An important early test of donor interest in sponsoring a GM DT crop project for Africa was provided in 2004-05, when Monsanto took the initiative and offered to share its newly discovered DT traits for humanitarian purposes.”
― Robert Paarlberg, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

“The number of genetic engineers currently working on DT traits continues to grow, but given the high regulatory costs of bringing any entirely new GM crop to the market, the first commercialized version of an engineered DT crop will almost certainly come from one of the three big biotechnology companies now in pursuit of this objective in the United States: Syngenta, DuPont/Pioneer, and Monsanto.”
― Robert Paarlberg, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

“William Cline has projected that because of climate change the total agricultural capacity of Africa (excluding Egypt) will decline by roughly 19 percent between now and 2080 (Cline 2007). These projected climate change effects make the development of crops better able to tolerate drought an even more obvious imperative in Africa.”
― Robert Paarlberg, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

“In the South Wollo zone of northeastern Ethiopia, 80 percent of rural farming households earn less than $50 per year, and periodic drought is one reason they remain trapped in deep poverty.”
― Robert Paarlberg, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa