What it hates is that those producing the knowledge have control over it.
The undernourishment brought on by war produced the knowledge to cure the ailment.
From the research legitimacy and possible practical contribution point of view, it depends on understanding the complexity and heterogenic character of the biobank, comprehending the fact that biobanks are not just places to keep, store and produce the knowledge.
If anything is to blame, it is liberal capitalism that increased prosperity, lowered the economic incentives to have large families, produced the knowledge and resources to limit pregnancies, promoted equality for women and widespread education.
For over 30 years, as I've dedicated my career to promoting regional agriculture, I continue to ask whose responsibility is it to protect these critical working landscapes, the vital food they produce, the knowledge of generations of farmers they represent, the ecosystem services they provide and the jobs they directly and indirectly support?
This group is consulted throughout the development steps which produce the knowledge base and the SOR SAVOIR booklets.
The presence of knowledge stockholders in the knowledge networks pushes the data and information to produce the knowledge which will impact the decision of decision makers.
Furthermore, for institutional and epistemological reasons, scientists often struggled to produce the knowledge needed by policymakers and, in turn, policymakers faced difficulties in acting as 'receptors' who could receive and use that knowledge.
The question of effective participation is thus meaningful only in the broader context that also concerns the purposes and effects of policy making and the processes of producing the knowledge that it is based on.
Anything else would put the sociologist in the risky position of speaking from a higher plateau of knowledge than those engaged in producing the very knowledge whose success the sociologist is trying to understand.
