Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project
Contact:
Email: fukudaps@newschool.edu
Experience
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr was a Research Fellow in the Science, Technology and Globalization Project, an activity of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program. As a development economist, her work focuses on policies for equitable development using a multidisciplinary approach. Between 1995 and 2004, she was director of the annual Human Development Reports commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). These research-based publications are known for their innovative measurement, concepts, and policy proposals on emerging development challenges, covering diverse themes such as Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World (2002), Making New Technologies Work for Human Development (2001); Human Rights (2000); Globalization (1999). She is co-editor of Readings in Human Development: Concepts, Measures and Policies for a Development Paradigm. She is founding editor of the Journal of Human Development: Alternative Economics in Action and is on the editorial board of Feminist Economics.
She spearheaded UNDP's policy work on technical cooperation effectiveness and capacity building. She led the 1993 publication Rethinking Technical Cooperation, Reforms for Capacity Building in Africa—one of the most comprehensive reviews of the subject, and the 2002 revisit, Capacity for Development; Old Problems, New Solutions. She has held management positions in UNDP in Africa and worked at the World Bank as an agricultural economist. Sakiko is a Japanese national and graduated from universities of Cambridge, Sussex, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
She is currently a Visiting Professor at the New School's Graduate Program in International Affairs.
December 2006
"The Role of Government Policy: For Growth, Sustainability and Equity"
Book Chapter
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project
This chapter focuses on the role of government policy in the evolution of GM technology and institutions.
December 2006
The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development
Book
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project
This is the first book to bridge the gap between the "naysayers" and "cheerleaders", and to provide a penetrating examination of the realities, complexities, benefits and pitfalls of GM adoption in developing countries that are desperately fighting poverty while trying to stay afloat in the hyper-competitive global economy.
December 2006
"Introduction: Genetically Modified Crops and National Development Priorities"
Book Chapter
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project
"Investing in agricultural technology increasingly turns up these days on lists of the top ten practical actions the rich world could take to contribute to reducing global poverty...."
December 2006
"Emergence and Global Spread of GM Crops: Explaining the Role of Institutional Change"
Book Chapter
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project
"Biotechnology enthusiasts emphasize the power of the new science to address a seemimgly endless array of constraints facing resource poor farmers. But the process of technological innovation depends as much on institutions as on the science...."
December 2006
"Institutional Changes in Argentina, Brazil, China, India and South Africa"
Book Chapter
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project
"...the emergence and spread of GM crops at the global level was driven by markets and shaped by institutions. This chapter analyses the same process at the national level and compares the experiences of Argentina, Brazil, China, India and South Africa...."
2006
"Introduction: Global Actors, Markets and Rules Driving the Diffusion of Genetically Modified (GM) Crops in Developing Countries"
Journal Article, International Journal of Technology and Globalisation, Special Issue on Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries -- Institutional and Policy Challenges, issue 1/2, volume 2
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project
"This introductory essay explains how this new technology is being driven by the actors (multinational corporations), markets (large global markets) and rules (intellectual property) of globalisation."
July 25, 2005
"Equitable Development Key to World Security"
Op-Ed, The Asahi Shimbun
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project and Necla Tschirgi
"Development is crucial for human security, not only for those in poor countries but also for people throughout the world."
November 22, 2004
"Agricultural Biotechnology for Development: Socioeconomic Issues and Institutional Challenges of Genetically Modified (GM) Crops in Developing Countries"
Paper
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project and Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project
The objective of this collaborative research project is to identify the key institutional and socio-economic challenges for developing countries in taking up GM crops, based on a review of experiences in 8 countries. We aim to publish a volume putting together 6 country case studies in 2005.
October 2004
"Millennium Development Goals: Why They Matter"
Journal Article, Global Governance, issue 4, volume 10
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project
