1) Introduction: The Ups and Downs of New Technologies
2) Undemocratic science and technology: The Green Revolution and malnutrition
3) A top-down agricultural reform programme in Indonesia turns into a bottom-up movement for political accountability and agricultural change
4) IT manufacturing workers in Scotland and Thailand forge research alliances to challenge the lack of corporate and government accountability with regard to workers' health
5) Bottom-up prioritisation of research goals: the Quality Research in Dementia Network
6) An Indian indigenous peoples' movement revives a deliberative and participatory process of governance and uses it to tackle the challenges presented by new agricultural technologies
7) A landless workers' movement in Brazil supports low cost agro ecological technologies and challenges the introduction of GM crops by transnational corporations
8) Indian community groups form alliances with UK research institutes to create an accountability forum for Indian scientists and policymakers on future agricultural technologies