Witt, Patel, & Schnurr. (2006). Can the poor help Genetically Modified crops? Technology, representation, and cotton in the Makhathini Flats, South Africa. Review of African Political Economy, 33, 497-513.
This article emerged out of a collaboration with Dr. Harald Witt and Dr. Raj Patel, funded by the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. Our project investigated the adoption of Genetically Modified (GM) cotton in South Africa’s Makhathini Flats, which was heralded as a case in which agricultural biotechnology could benefit …