Assuring food security for the next 25 years requires meeting a number of political, social, economic, and technical challenges. One of these is the successful use of new biotechnologies in agriculture. Research in recombinant genetics and biotechnology aims to develop plant varieties that...

At the beginning of the new millennium, the 150-year-old conceptual skeleton of 'political economy' is rattling loudly in the closet. Early in his work Marx (1859) argued that there is a close and circular relationship between the social conditions of a nation and its conditions of production,...

Despite a substantial increase in world population, more people live longer and fuller lives today than ever before in human history. The developing world has achieved gains in the last 30 years that took the industrial world a century. Despite remarkable improvements in all the important...