This review of the third conference of Living Knowledge: The International Science Shop Network, held in Paris, in September 2007, finds practioners of community-based research (CBR) engaging the increasing important world of Research and Development. According to the author, "The significance of this connection derives from the centrality of R&D in the global economy, the insularity of decisions about it, and the illusions about the research system’s consequences for everyday people that are manufactured by its promoters." In the conference's opening session, University of California (Berkeley) biologist Ignacio Chapela recounted his community-based research with indigenous farmers in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, which produced evidence that local maize had been contaminated by genetically-modified organisms. Published in Science as Culture, Vol. 16, No. 4, 475-480 (December 2007).
