1.Hope not Hype - new book + free download
2.Who is Jack Heinemann?
3:More on Hope not Hype: The book on biotechnology for all agricultures
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1.Hope not Hype - new book + free download
Prof Jack Heinemann's book, Hope not Hype, is now in full production with a run of 2,000 paperbacks and 100 hard copies.
All details on the site www.gendora.net; direct order from TWN.
No proceeds to author; all go to producing books for distribution in developing countries.
The publisher has given permission for three parts to be released for free. They are the Preface on why the book was wrotten, Chapter 7: Biotechnology of Sustainable Cultures and Appendix 3: Potential human health risks from Bt crops.
These three chapters are live for download from
http://sites.google.com/site/therightbiotechnology/
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2.Who is Jack Heinemann?
Jack Heinemann is a professor of molecular biology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and director of its Center for Integrated Research in Biosafety. He carries out a broad and complex assessment of the risks of genetically modified and engineered organisms with a particular focus on horizontal gene transfer, where genetic material is passed between organisms by methods other than direct breeding.
The Centre for Integrated Research in Biosafety is independent of commercial interests in GMO products, transdisciplinary and involved with international collaborative projects. "The centre brings together scientists skilled in biotechnology research and safety assessment and social scientists with experience in the evaluation of the ethical, social, cultural and political impacts of novel technologies. This team is committed to working collaboratively across disciplinary boundaries and to modelling new forms of integrated research."
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3.Hope not Hype
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The book on biotechnology for all agricultures
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Dr. Hans R. Herren, Co-Chair IAASTD: "Hope Not Hype is exactly on target regarding what is needed today by the decision-makers, who are not specialists but need to have - in clear, comprehensive and short text - the main points to guide their decisions on biotechnology in agriculture...It is also useful to the education sector, providing information that can help to better educate students and the general public on the issues raised to make informed decisions at their own level."
The book on biotechnology for all agricultures
Can we feed the world in the year 2050? If we can, will it be at the price of more distant futures of food insecurity? 21st-century Earth is still trying to find a way to feed its people. Despite global food surpluses, we have malnutrition, hunger and starvation. We also have mass obesity in the same societies. Both of these phenomena are a symptom of the same central problem: a dominating single agriculture coming from industrialized countries responding to perverse and artificial market signals. It neither produces sustainable surpluses of balanced and tasty diets nor does it use food production to increase social and economic equity, increase the food security of the poorest, and pamper the planet back into health.
This book is about a revolution in agriculture envisioned by the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), a five-year multi-million-dollar research exercise supervised by the United Nations and World Bank that charts sustainable solutions. The solutions are of course not purely technological, but technology will be a part of the solution.
Which technology? Whose technology?
Hope Not Hype is written for people who farm, but especially for people who eat. It takes a hard look at traditional, modern (e.g., genetic engineering) and emerging (e.g., agroecological) biotechnologies and sorts them on the basis of delivering food without undermining the capacity to make more food. It cuts through the endless promises made by agrochemical corporations that leverage the public and private investment in agriculture innovation. Here the case is made for the right biotechnology rather than the "one size fits all" biotechnology on offer. This book provides governments and their citizens with the sound science in plain language to articulate their case for an agriculture of their own one that works for them.