G D Stone

Biographic Data

ID11282
NAMEG D Stone
GIVEN NAMESG D
FAMILY NAMEStone
SIGNATURESTONE G D
AFFILIATIONSWashington University in St. Louis
ORCID0000-0001-6265-6396
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS60
TOTAL CITATIONS921
AUTHOR COUNT60
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX15

  • Black Swans and Safety Nets: Food Aid, Dispersal, and Eugenics in Corbin Hollow

    G D Stone, Richard Knox RobinsonARTICLESouthern Anthropologist2026

    After an area of the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains was condemned for the planned Shenandoah National Park, the residents of Corbin Hollow were stranded in their homes as ecological and economic conditions worsened in the 1930s.They were depicted in the national press and in academic research as a backward, isolated, and eventually starving community that would benefit from being moved to new homes in the modern world.More recent archaeological an…

  • Citizens as consumers: Styles of Reasoning About Agricultural Biotechnologies and Publics

    Open AccessKlara Fischer, Lauren Crossland-Marr et al.ARTICLEScience as Culture2025Cited by: 1References: 10

  • GM Crops and the Jevons Paradox: Induced Innovation, Systemic Effects and Net Pesticide Increases From Pesticide-Decreasing Crops

    Open AccessA Flachs, G D Stone et al.ARTICLEJournal of Agrarian Change2025Cited by: 1References: 113

    The Jevons paradox describes how increased efficiency in the use of a resource can paradoxically increase rather than reduce its overall consumption. In agricultural systems, efficiency is confounded by a broad range of economic, ecological, social and evolutionary factors. Agriculture is a particularly elastic kind of production: Efficiencies in one input can lead to an increased consumption of other inputs as well as changes to system outputs. …

  • The knowledge politics of genome editing in Africa

    Open AccessJoeva Sean Rock, Matthew A Schnurr et al.ARTICLEElementa Science of the…2023

    How is the promise of crop genome editing viewed by scientists working with or aspiring to work with the technology, by development experts seeking to mold public perceptions and policy attitudes toward genome editing, and by donors that provide funds for genome-editing research for agricultural applications in sub-Saharan Africa? In this article, we present data from interviews with these stakeholders to shed light on their aspirations, concerns…

  • Siloed discourses: A year-long study of twitter engagement on the use of CRISPR in food and agriculture

    Open AccessLauren Crossland-Marr, Alexandru Giurca et al.ARTICLENew Genetics and Society2023

    Gene editing technologies are emerging as powerful tools for agricultural development, spurring both hopes and concerns in society. To understand emerging discourses and coalitions around the role of CRISPR gene editing in food and agriculture we map the main actors and themes emerging from English-speaking Twitter networks over the course of one year (2021). Scientific actors are the most active and best networked in the debate. They promote a p…

  • Governing Agricultural Biotechnologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany: A Trans-decadal Study of Regulatory Cultures

    Open AccessAdrian Ely, Beate Friedrich et al.ARTICLEScience Technology & Human Values2023References: 61

    Comparative studies of agricultural biotechnology regulation have highlighted differences in the roles that science and politics play in decision-making. Drawing on documentary and interview evidence in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, we consider how the "regulatory cultures" that guided national responses to earlier generations of agricultural biotechnology have developed, alongside the emergence of genome editing in food cro…

  • Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing

    Open AccessJoeva Sean Rock, Matthew A Schnurr et al.ARTICLEDevelopment and Change2023References: 89

    Genome editing - a plant-breeding technology that facilitates the manipulation of genetic traits within living organisms - has captured the imagination of scholars and professionals working on agricultural development in Africa. Echoing the arrival of genetically modified (GM) crops decades ago, genome editing is being heralded as a technology with the potential to revolutionize breeding based on enhanced precision, reduced cost and increased spe…

  • Surveillance agriculture and peasant autonomy

    Open AccessG D StoneARTICLEJournal of Agrarian Change2022

    ‘Big Data’ digital technologies are beginning to make inroads into peasant agriculture in the Global South. Of particular importance is the subset of technologies that appropriate agricultural decision‐making, here theorized as surveillance agriculture. These technological regimes aspire to not only remove decision‐making from the farmer, but eventually to replace the farmer with, for instance, ‘autonomous’ tractors. This paper looks ahead to ask…

  • Malthusian Thought

    G D StoneCHAPTER2021

    Robert Malthus’s 1798 Population has proven to be one of the most influential publications in history. Challenging ideas popular among Enlightenment writers, including the perfectibility of human institutions, he argued that since population could grow exponentially and agriculture only linearly, there was an inherent and irresolvable imbalance in nature that unavoidably led to population being checked by mortality among the poor. The policy impl…

  • Genetically Modified Crops

    G D StoneCHAPTER2021

    In 1958, a Nobel laureate predicted that one day scientists would be able to use “biological engineering” to improve all species. Genetic modification of viruses and bacteria was performed in the early 1970s. Genetic modification of plants was announced in the early 1980s, followed by predictions of revolutionary improvements in agriculture. But nearly forty years later, the improvements brought by genetic modification are meager: few crops have …

  • Golden Rice and technology adoption theory: A study of seed choice dynamics among rice growers in the Philippines

    Open AccessDominic Glover, Sung Kyu Kim et al.ARTICLETechnology in Society2020Cited by: 2References: 24

  • Commentary: New histories of the Indian Green Revolution

    Open AccessG D StoneARTICLEGeographical Journal2019Cited by: 15References: 22

    The Green Revolution continues to be a touchstone in debates on food production. Accounts generally cite “high‐yielding” dwarf wheat and rice spreading through Asia and particularly India, resulting in lives saved, agriculture modernised, and under‐utilised workers moved off farms. This Commentary examines the forces that popularised this version of events and then reviews a significant new body of writing, comprising five major works by historia…

  • Farmer knowledge across the commodification spectrum: Rice, cotton, and vegetables in Telangana, India

    Open AccessA Flachs, G D StoneARTICLEJournal of Agrarian Change2019Cited by: 12References: 29

    Crop seeds are a factor of production that can be produced on farm or bought, commodified in varying ways and degrees, and that can change slowly or rapidly-all of which directly impact the crucial process of farmer "skilling." Seed choices also offer a unique empirical window through which farmer knowledge may be studied. Although other studies have examined the differences between cash and food crops, this research provides new insights into va…

  • Genetically Modified Organisms

    Open AccessG D StoneOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    Genetic modification via the creation of recombinant DNA was developed in the 1970s. It has been used to produce medicines and industrial products but its greatest impact has been in crop agriculture. Genetically modified (GM) crops are planted on a large scale in five countries and on smaller scales in many others. Impacts are contested but there appear to be a mix of positive and negative effects and controversies continue to characterize their…

  • Agricultural Intensification

    Open AccessG D StoneOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    The process of increasing output from a given amount of land by increasing inputs is called agricultural intensification. Intensification may be labor based or capital based. In labor‐based intensification, farmers adapt to rising population density by shortening fallows and accepting lower marginal returns on their work. In capital‐based intensification, farms not only become more factory‐like but also rely increasingly on manufactured inputs. T…

  • Agriculture as spectacle

    Open AccessG D Stone, Glenn StoneARTICLEJournal of Political Ecology2018Cited by: 8References: 7

    In the influential "performance" model of agriculture, the appearance of the farm is the unintentional result of improvisational decision-making rather than the intentional result of design. However in many ways agriculture is explicitly intended to produce an appearance, often aimed at a specific audience. This phenomenon, termed agricultural spectacle, comes in many forms and serves varied aims. This article offers a theoretical framework begin…

  • The ox fall down: Path-breaking and technology treadmills in Indian cotton agriculture

    G D Stone, A FlachsARTICLEThe Journal of Peasant Studies2018Cited by: 22References: 43

    Although India's cotton sector has been penetrated by various input- and capital-intensive methods, penetration by herbicide has been largely stymied. In Telangana State, the main obstacle has been the practice of 'double-lining', in which cotton plants are spaced widely to allow weeding by ox-plow. Path dependency theory primarily explains the persistence of sub-optimal practices, but double-lining is an example of an advantageous path for cash-…

  • Heirloom rice in Ifugao: An 'Anti-Commodity' in the Process of Commodification

    Open AccessDominic Glover, G D StoneARTICLEThe Journal of Peasant Studies2018Cited by: 15References: 32

    We analyse the marketing of 'heirloom rices' produced in the Cordillera mountains of northern Luzon, the Philippines, as the commodification of a historical 'anti-commodity'. We contend that, historically, rice was produced for social, cultural and spiritual purposes but not primarily for sale or trade. The Ifugaos were able to sustain terraced wet-rice cultivation within a system of 'escape agriculture' because they were protected from Spanish i…

  • Mapping Knowledge: GIS as a Tool for Spatial Modeling of Patterns of Warangal Cotton Seed Popularity and Farmer Decision-Making

    Open AccessA Flachs, G D Stone et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2017

  • Dreading Crispr: GMOs, Honest Brokers, And Mertonian Transgressions

    Open AccessG D StoneARTICLEGeographical Review2017Cited by: 3References: 9

    Newly arriving biotechnologies are beginning to force us all—scientists, policy makers, and the public—to confront questions of extraordinary difficulty. We will urgently need scientists to act as

  • Disembedding grain: Golden Rice, the Green Revolution, and heirloom seeds in the Philippines

    Open AccessG D Stone, Dominic GloverARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2016Cited by: 14References: 23

  • Towards a General Theory of Agricultural Knowledge Production: Environmental, Social, and Didactic Learning

    Open AccessG D StoneARTICLECulture Agriculture Food and…2016Cited by: 23References: 63

    Social scientists and input producers alike have seen farmer decision making as driven by environmental learning based on experimentation and empirical observation. A more robust body of theory influenced by behavioral ecology sees a major role for social learning based on emulation of models selected on social criteria, although the relationship between these learning modes is not well understood. But a larger problem is that these perspectives …

  • The problem with the farmer’s voice

    Open AccessG D Stone, A FlachsARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2014Cited by: 7References: 8

  • Rhythms of the herd: Long term dynamics in seed choice by Indian farmers

    Open AccessG D Stone, A Flachs et al.ARTICLETechnology in Society2014Cited by: 11References: 25

  • Seeds, Science, and Struggle: The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops by Abby Kinchy (review)

    G D StoneARTICLETechnology and Culture2013

    Reviewed by: Seeds, Science, and Struggle: The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops by Abby Kinchy Glenn Davis Stone (bio) Seeds, Science, and Struggle: The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops. By Abby Kinchy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. Pp. xviii+220. $22. Despite the attempts to boil genetically modified (GM) crops down to simple narratives, the controversies that have swirled around these new technologies in different countries are in many …