Genetic techniques for livestock breeding: Restructuring institutional relationships in agriculture |
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Authors: | David Gibbs Lewis Holloway Ben Gilna Carol Morris |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Geography, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK;bSchool of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK |
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Abstract: | This paper explores some of the key institutional transformations in livestock breeding associated with the increasing significance of genetic techniques, situating this within an assessment of an emerging agricultural bioeconomy. Focusing on beef cattle and sheep breeding in the United Kingdom, the paper examines how a move towards the involvement of international and corporate interests in livestock breeding is restructuring the network of institutional interests affecting the knowledge and decision making of individual breeders. The paper suggests that the structural transformation of beef cattle and sheep breeding is complicated by the need for negotiation between breeders’ ‘traditional’ knowledge-practices and the ‘geneticised’ techniques being made available to them. We are thus seeing the emergence of new and complex interactions between the major actors which are reconfiguring power relationships in the UK livestock breeding sector. |
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Keywords: | Livestock breeding Genetics Science Institutional change UK |
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