Can the Poor Help GM Crops? Technology, representation & cotton in the Makhathini flats, South Africa
Can the Poor Help GM Crops? Technology, representation & cotton in the Makhathini flats, South Africa
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穷人能帮助种植转基因作物吗？
DOI：
10.1080/03056240601000945
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
M. Schnurr
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作者：
Harald Witt;R. Patel;M. Schnurr
1998年在南非的Makhatini Flats采用转基因棉花被誉为农业生物技术可以使小农受益的一个案例，也是非洲大陆其他国家效仿的典范。使用历史、政治、经济和人种学数据，我们发现最初对转基因技术的热情是被误导的。我们认为，马哈蒂尼的结构化制度框架通过获得信贷和市场，为转基因技术的采用者提供了特权。转基因棉花的采用不是农民认可转基因技术的症状，而是他们在该地区面临严重缺乏选择的迹象。
The adoption of Genetically Modified (GM) cotton in South Africa's Makhathini Flats in 1998 was heralded as a case in which agricultural biotechnology could benefit smallholder farmers, and a model for the rest of the continent to follow. Using historical, political economic and ethnographic data, we find the initial enthusiasm around GM technology to be misguided. We argue that Makhathini's structured institutional framework privileges adopters of GM technologies through access to credit and markets. The adoption of GM cotton is symptomatic not of farmers’ endorsement of GM technology, but a sign of the profound lack of choice facing them in the region.