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KULUNDA: South Siberian Agro-steppe as Pioneering Region for Sustainable Land Use (Innovations in Landscape Research)
This book focuses on a representative example and one of the world’s largest steppe conversions, and provides a detailed overview of the results of the BMBF-funded research project KULUNDA. As part of the Siberian virgin land policy, the Kulunda steppe was transformed into agricultural land from 195... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Ethical Tensions from New Technology: The Case of Agricultural Biotechnology
by Rachel A. Ankeny • Philipp Aerni • Bartosz Bartkowski • Heather J. Bray • Bradley Martin Jones • Deepthi E. Kolady • Jane Kolodinsky • Katie M. MacDonald • Kelly A. McKinley • Desmond Ng • Frauke Pirscher • Roberto Quiroz • Dane Scott • Shivendra Kumar Srivastava • Debra M. Strauss • Insa Theesfeld • Johannes Timaeus • Corrine Valdivia • Duane WindsorThe introduction of new technologies can be controversial, especially when they create ethical tensions as well as winners and losers among stakeholders and interest groups. While ethical tensions resulting from the genetic modification of crops and plants and their supportive gene technologies have... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018