ABSTRACT
This chapter particularly focuses the institutional arrangement of the projects dictates certain approaches to technology development, styles of science and values, in response to incomplete knowledge about future change. The institutionalised DTMA and WEMA approach to interpreting impact assessments is to focus narrowly on the technical performance of the technology. In light of both uncertainty about the technical performance of crops and ignorance about the socio-economic impacts of the technology, claims about the need for the technology and justifications for investment approach to crop breeding. Ambiguous nature of the debate and conclude that the core of the controversy over GM crops is the extent to which consumers perceive benefits from the technology. The chapter aggregates and narrowly conceived public, and DTMA and WEMA narratives that it underpins, effectively acts to shape the way in which a whole range of project activities are framed and undertaken.
