Robert Paarlberg
Robert L. Paarlberg (born August 25, 1945 ) was an American professor of political science at Wellesley College and an employee at the "Weatherhead Center for International Affairs" at Harvard University .
Life
Paarlberg comes from West Lafayette in the US state of Indiana . Paarberg holds a BA from Carleton College and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. Among other things, he was visiting professor at Harvard, legislative assistant in the US Senate , and officer in the Office of Naval Intelligence . He lives in Watertown MA and is married to Marianne Perlak.
job
Paarlberg is primarily concerned with agricultural and science policy .
In several publications he dealt with the political environment of green genetic engineering and analyzed the reasons for the weak political support for modern agricultural technologies and their low prevalence in developing countries. In Starved for Science: How Biotechnology in Being Kept Out of Africa , he blames the preferences of consumers in industrialized countries for the lack of political support for improved seeds , pesticides and fertilizers that are urgently needed in developing countries . The main reason is the lack of utility of these technologies for Western consumers who have long overcome rural poverty and malnutrition. In particular, the Europeans, with the export of their ideas (e.g. precautionary principle , neglect to rejection of modern agriculture and the glorification of small farmers as an idyll ) via development aid , international organizations and non-governmental organizations , would play a key role in this context. Many Asian countries also have close cultural ties to Europe. In India , the slow introduction and massive regulation of green genetic engineering can be traced back to a traditional rejection and general distrust of technologies and imports from the West.
Books
- Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know . Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa . Harvard University Press, 2008
- The Politics of Precaution: Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries . Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- Policy Reform in American Agriculture (with David Orden and Terry Roe). Chicago University Press, 1999.
- Countrysides at Risk: The Political Geography of Sustainable Agriculture . Overseas Development Council, 1996.
- Leadership Abroad Begins at Home: US Foreign Economic Policy After the Cold War . Brookings Institution Press, 1995.
- Fixing Farm Trade: Policy Options for the United States . Ballinger Publishing, 1988.
- Food Trade and Foreign Policy: India, the Soviet Union and the United States . Cornell University Press, 1985.
Web links
- Website about Paarlberg at Wellesley College, Emeritus
- Paarlberg talked about Starved for Science , November 19, 2010, University of Oregon
- Paarlberg's talk on food and agricultural policy, April 8, 2010, IFPRI
- Site about Paarlberg at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard, in Cambridge MA, with download links to various lectures by the person
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paarlberg, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Paarlberg, Robert L. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American political scientist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1945 |