Terminator technology the threat to world food security

Ecologist

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 276-279

  Steinbrecher, Ricarda A ^a   Mooney, Pat Roy ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD SAFETY; TECHNOLOGY;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; FOOD SECURITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE;

EID: 0345471838     PISSN: 02613131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Berlan, Jean-Pierre and Richard C..Lewontin, Agricultural Genetics and Sterifix Breeding (1998) unpublished manuscript, from an advertisment inserted at pages 5-6.
2. Lewontin, Richard C, and Berlan, Jean-Pierre,The Political Economy of Agricultural Research: The Case of Hybrid Com Chapter 23, p. 625 in Carrol], Ronald, C., Vandermeer, John H., and Rossett, Peter, Agroecology, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
3. For further information about the new push for cereal hybrids, please see RAFI Communiqué Seed Industry Consolidation - 1988: Who Owns Whom? (July/August, 1988) at the RAFI website www.rafi.ca/
4. Freiburg, Bill, Is Delta and Pine Land's Terminator Gene a Billion Dollar Discover? in Seeds and Crop Digest, May-June, 1998.
5. Collins, Harry B. New Technologies and Modernizing World Agriculture, an unpublished paper distributed by Dr. Collins during a debate on Terminator held June 12th, 1998 during the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Rome).
6. Via a Freedom of Information application to the US Army, RAFI recently received documentation from a military seminar titled, Biotechnology Workshop 20/20 (May 29-30, 1996, held at the Army War College. The papers outline a wide range of military uses for biotechnology which the authors believe to be feasible by the year 2020.
7. Abraham Lincoln, Annual Address by Hon. Abram Lincoln of Illinois delivered at Milwaukee, Sept. 30, 1859 pages 287-299 in Transactions of the Wisconsin Slate Agricultural Society, Carpenter and Hyer, (Madison) 1860.