{"id":839,"date":"2018-01-02T18:52:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T18:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/?page_id=839"},"modified":"2018-01-04T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:32:52","slug":"breeding-from-biotechnology-a-look-at-the-infrastructures-behind-the-production-of-flood-resistant-rice-in-india-and-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/breeding-from-biotechnology-a-look-at-the-infrastructures-behind-the-production-of-flood-resistant-rice-in-india-and-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Breeding from biotechnology: a look at the infrastructures behind the production of flood-resistant rice in India and Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Aliza Lieberman-Barnard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--\n\n<h4>Faculty Intro:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\n\"Maren Stunes\u2019 research paper, completed in Fall 2016 in ES 375, Environmental Justice, demonstrates a critical analysis of the Baltimore City Public Works Department and its decision to shut off water to citizens with outstanding bills. She utilizes a procedural justice lens to critically examine the structural inefficiencies in city government. Baltimore City represents a fascinating case study in this context due to its unique political structure and recent, controversial decisions to shut-off water to its most vulnerable communities. Stunes argues that there is a lack of opportunity for citizens to participate in those decisions that affect their everyday lives and livelihoods. Drawing on literature grounded in water rights, Stunes demonstrates that water has particular significance as a human right. The paper offers a new lens through which to understand structural decision-making processes in city government in Baltimore, highlighting the way in which the most marginal populations continue to be made irrelevant, a process that carries greater weight when analyzed in the context of access to and distribution of water.\"\n<\/p>\n\n--><\/p>\n<h4>From the Author:<\/h4>\n<p>\n&#8220;This paper was written for professor Marko Salvaggio\u2019s Environmental Sociology seminar. The assignment follows an unconventional format, exploring the material, cultural, and environmental infrastructures that contribute to the creation of a specific material good, in this case, genetically modified flood-tolerant rice.<\/p>\n<p>I was drawn to the idea of writing about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) after stumbling upon an article in The New Yorker about plant geneticist Pamela Ronald. In the article, Ronald presents a counter narrative to the dominant fear surrounding GMOs by providing the example of \u201cscuba rice\u201d \u2013 a variety of rice, bred via a process called marker assisted selection, that can withstand two weeks of complete submergence under water. This rice has implications for providing greater food security for families and communities at the local level. I wanted to learn more about this side of GMOs, rarely talked about in mainstream media. Surely GMOs had applications beyond Monsanto\u2019s Round-Up Ready tomatoes and Bt corn. Dispelling the stigma of GMOs could hopefully encourage people to think critically about what this umbrella term means and in what context it is used.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, by looking at flood-tolerant rice from a production standpoint and through the framework of the product\u2019s cultural, material, and environmental infrastructure, we can better understand the societal and environmental footprint of consuming said product. The infrastructures explore the ways in which knowledge and resources flow from one point to another as part of the greater production process.  From the lab to the field, the arduous production of flood-tolerant rice involves the participation, and financial and technological resources of a myriad of stakeholders, but the benefits of its successful development are perhaps well worth the process.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/files\/2018\/01\/Aliza-Lieberman-Barnard-ES005.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Breeding from biotechnology: a look at the infrastructures behind the production of flood-resistant rice in India and Bangladesh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyrights of all Verge articles and editorial material belong to the authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Aliza Lieberman-Barnard From the Author: &#8220;This paper was written for professor Marko Salvaggio\u2019s Environmental Sociology seminar. 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