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The productivity of modern agriculture is the result of a remarkable fusion of technology and science (White, 1968; Asimov, 1979). In the West this fusion was built on ideological foundations that, from the early Middle Ages, has valued both the improvement of material well being and the advancement of knowledge.
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Ruttan, V.W. (1985). Moral Responsibility and Agricultural Research (1). In: de Haen, H., Johnson, G.L., Tangermann, S. (eds) Agriculture and International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07981-0_5
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