Phil Macnaghten is Professor of Technology and International Development at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He was Professor of Geography at Durham University (UK), and Founder Director of Durham University's Institute of Hazard and Risk Research. He coordinated the GMFuturos research project.

Susana Carro-Ripalda is a social anthropologist, Honorary Research Fellow at Durham University, and currently Visiting Researcher at the Universidad del País Vasco, Spain. She was Senior Research Fellow and GMFuturos Project Manager in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University, and has lectured at the universities of Durham, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Informed by rich, ethnographic research with farmers, scientists and publics in three global rising power settings - Brazil, India and Mexico - this book provides a fresh understanding on how GM crops are being experienced in different locales, on why the controversy has taken varied forms internationally and by what pathways to move towards more sustainable agricultural technologies. It offers a new pathway to governing GM crops informed by recent debates on responsible innovation, agricultural sustainability and social justice.

Part 1: The GMFuturos Research 1. Researching GM Crops in a Global Context 2. An Analysis of the GM Crop Debate in Mexico 3. An Analysis of the GM Crop Debate in Brazil 4. An Analysis of the GM Crop Debate in India 5. Comparing GM Crops in Mexico, Brazil and India Part 2: Commentaries on Governing GM Crops 6. The Route to Food Security is not Through Glorification of the Rural Idyl and Demonization of Global Trade (or Vice Versa) 7. Lessons from China's GM Controversy 8. Public Participation, Accountability and the Stewardship of Transgenic Crops 9. An Anthropological Perspective on the Promise and the Threat of GM Crops 10. Neoliberal Origins of Anti-GM Protest in Europe 11. GM Futures: Perspectives from a Plant Molecular Biologist 12. The Search for Affirming Narratives for the Future Governance of Technology: Reflections from a Science-Theology Perspective on GMFuturos 13. Crop Science, the Heisenberg Principle and Resistance to Genetically Modified Organisms 14. Innovating Governance? 15. Institutional Rigidities and Impediments: Agricultural Research and GM Crops in India 16. Focus-ing on GM Crops 17. A Responsible Innovation Governance Framework for GM Crops: Global Lessons for Agricultural Sustainability