Los transgénicos en América Latina y el Caribe PDF Download

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Publisher: UN
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Category : Biotecnología
Languages : es
Pages : 408

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Desde su aparición a mediados de la década recién pasada, los cultivos transgénicos han despertado grandes expectativas y generado enormes controversias, las que aún están muy lejos de agotarse. Se trata de un tema especialmente importante y sensible para América latina y el Caribe, tanto por el área cultivada -la segunda en extensión en el mundo-, como por la enorme biodiversidad y el hecho de contar con los centros y subcentros de origen del maíz y de la papa, cultivos vitales para la alimentación mundial. Este libro reúne diversos puntos de vista sobre el tema y pretende constituir un efectivo aporte a la discusión de los efectos económicos, sociales y ambientales de estos cultivos en América latina y el Caribe.

Author: Graciela Fernández
Publisher: Ediciones Suarez
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Category : Science
Languages : es
Pages : 188

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Author: María Luisa Pfeiffer
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Category : Science
Languages : es
Pages : 238

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Author: María Angélica Larach
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Category : Biotecnología agrícola
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Carlos A. Blanco
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Economica
ISBN: 6071603277
Category : Science
Languages : es
Pages : 167

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La aparición de los primeros cultivos transgénicos dio origen a una gran controversia entre consumidores, grupos ambientalistas, agricultores, investigadores y empresas. Más de 10 años han pasado desde que se introdujeron estos cultivos sin que hayan ocurrido las consecuencias negativas que se temían. En estas páginas el lector puede obtener información fidedigna sobre qué son las plantas transgénicas, sus efectos sobre el ambiente, su efectividad, sus posibles repercusiones socioeconómicas y cuáles son las expectativas en un futuro cercano.

Author: Henry Veltmeyer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429627009
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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This book explores the dynamics of the recent ‘progressive cycle’ in Latin American politics, associated with a red and pink tide of regime change. With this cycle of centre-left regimes oriented towards an alternative post-neoliberal form of development now coming to an end, coinciding with the end of a ‘primary commodities boom’ (the demand for natural resources exported in primary form on the world market), the authors seek to explore the dynamics of the transition from a progressive cycle of regimes oriented towards the search for a more inclusive form of development towards what appears to be another swing in the pendulum of electoral politics towards the far right and a return to neoliberal orthodoxy. Within the vortex of forces of change pushing towards both the Left and the Right, Latin America lies at the centre of ongoing heated theoretical and political debates as to how to bring about a more inclusive and sustainable form of post-neoliberal and post-capitalist development. Latin America in the Vortex of Social Change crucially aims to cut through these debates and explore the dynamics of the forces of change at work in the current conjuncture of capitalist development. With reference to a theoretical framework based on the interaction of three different forms of capitalism (capitalism as usual, extractive capitalism, narco-capitalism), the authors proceed to an analysis of the development and resistance dynamics of the development process that is unfolding on the Latin American political landscape. The book will appeal to scholars of political sociology and political theory with an interest in the political economy of development and Latin American affairs.

Author: Benedicte Bull
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317653785
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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Since colonial times the position of the social, political and economic elites in Latin America has been intimately connected to their control over natural resources. Consequently, struggles to protect the environment from over-exploitation and contamination have been related to marginalized groups’ struggles against local, national and transnational elites. The recent rise of progressive, left-leaning governments – often supported by groups struggling for environmental justice – has challenged the established elites and raised expectations about new regimes for natural resource management. Based on case-studies in eight Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, El Salvador and Guatemala), this book investigates the extent to which there have been elite shifts, how new governments have related to old elites, and how that has impacted on environmental governance and the management of natural resources. It examines the rise of new cadres of technocrats and the old economic and political elites’ struggle to remain influential. The book also discusses the challenges faced in trying to overcome structural inequalities to ensure a more sustainable and equitable governance of natural resources. This timely book will be of great interest to researchers and masters students in development studies, environmental management and governance, geography, political science and Latin American area studies.

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251082502
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 51

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This report looks at progress made in “growing greener cities” in Latin America and the Caribbean – cities in which urban and peri-urban agriculture is recognized by public policy, included in urban development strategies and land-use planning, supported by agricultural research and extension, and linked to sources of technological innovation, investment and credit, and to urban markets and consumers.

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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Author: Léo Pessini
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402093500
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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This book is the first in a series of planned volumes focused on preserving the character of the development of bioethics in particular cultural contexts. As the first of these volumes, Leo Pessini, Christian de Paul de Barchifontaine, and Fernando Lolas Stepke’s work has succeeded well. It has brought together accounts by sch- ars who were crucial to the emergence of bioethics in the Ibero-American cultural domain. This trail-blazing work in the history of bioethics will be of enduring s- nificance. I am deeply in their debt for having shouldered this far from easy task. Bioethics is the product of very particular socio-historical developments. Most prominent among them have been (1) the secularization of the dominant culture of North America, Western Europe, and now Central and South America as well, (2) a deflation of the status and authority of physicians as moral authorities able to guide their own profession, and (3) the salience of a post-traditional animus that gives c- tral place to persons as isolated atomic sources of moral authority. Bioethics initially took shape in North America as a post-Christian, post-professional, post-traditional social movement. This bioethics sought to establish a moral discourse for the public forum, a moral practice able to give practical guidance in hospitals and other insti- tions, and a body of undergirding and justifying theoretical reflections.