ABSTRACT
The new promise of the “doubly green revolution” is to make good that promise but this time using genetic engineering, popularly situated as genetic modification (GM). That promise though rests on the vision of a “doubly green revolution” first cast by the US Rockefeller Foundation. To investigate them as political economy phenomemon, they are first conceptually situated as interorganisational networks that configure a discursive GM policy field of biodevelopment. A useful theory to understand such dynamics is interorganisational network theory, which focuses on interorganisational networks as centrally important features of advanced industrial societies. The Asia-Pacific International Molecular Biology Network was established in 1997 to implement biotechnology across Asia. It also represents an interorganisational network of scientists, scientific institutions, national and international agencies, and industry, many of which overlap other GM policy networks. Emphasising the cohesion of the GM policy field is the concurrent membership of many participating organisations in the many interorganisational nodes forming the field.
