Situating Rice in the Philippines

Glenn Davis StoneWashington Univ. , St. Louis

Dominic Glover Inst. Development Studies, Sussex

DIMENSIONS OF POLITICAL ECOLOGY, LEXINGTON

Feb. 2015

Golden RiceBt Cotton

INDIA

G.D. Stone 2015 Biotechnology, Schismogenesis and the Demise of Uncertainty. Journal of Law and Policy 46, in press.

Political Ecology of Information

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GREEN REVOLUTION GENE REVOLUTION

Rice in the Philippines

IRRI website, 21 Feb 2013

spinach a capsule of b-carotene in oil Golden Rice

standardized breakfast • rice noodles (200 g, cooked)• pork (110 g, cooked) • one-half apple• 26-g cookie• total energy 630 kcal, 20% energy from fat

standardized lunch• rice (250 g, cooked)• pork meat (100 g, cooked)• cabbage (100 g, cooked)• egg and tomato soup (100 g) • total energy 560 kcal, 20% energy from fat

Food and Nutrition Research Inst., Seventh National Nutrition Survey, 2008

HEIRLOOM LANDRACE GREEN REVOLUTION GENE REVOLUTION

PROGRESSHEIRLOOM LANDRACE GREEN REVOLUTION GENE REVOLUTION

Swapan K. Datta, Rice biotechnology: A need for developing countries, 7(1&2) AGBIOFORUM (2004).

DESITUATINGHEIRLOOM LANDRACE GREEN REVOLUTION GENE REVOLUTION

DESITUATINGHEIRLOOM LANDRACE GREEN REVOLUTION GENE REVOLUTION

Green Revolution rice was intended to nullify Philippino landraces, but locally situated cultivation practices and ways of thinking about agriculture.

DESITUATINGHEIRLOOM LANDRACE GREEN REVOLUTION GENE REVOLUTION

DESITUATINGHEIRLOOM LANDRACE GREEN REVOLUTION GENE REVOLUTION

1. Although strongly situated in the Cordillera, orphan food where exported

Contraditions of Heirloom Rice

1. Although strongly situated in the Cordillera, orphan food where exported 2. Opposed by progressive NGO’s but ironically now supported by IRRI

Contraditions of Heirloom Rice