Reviews Agriculture

Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa

by Robert Paarlberg, Harvard Univ. Press, 2008, 235 p., $24.95.

By Science News

An argument that opposition to farm science hurts the poor.

STARVED FOR SCIENCE: HOW BIOTECHNOLOGY IS BEING KEPT OUT OF AFRICA

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