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Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Agricultural biotechnology
ISBN : 9780889367890
Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural Biotechnologies: Canadian-Latin American Perspectives
Author : Sheldon Krimsky,Roger Paul Wrubel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252065247
Probing the profitable new science of creating--and altering--life forms "Extraordinarily well documented . . . remarkably clear. This is the most comprehensive coverage of these issues to date. It will be required reading for some time." -- Lawrence Busch, Michigan State University "Krimsky and Wrubel not only describe the components of agricultural biotechnology, they address and analyze controversies involving the risks and benefits of new technologies. Coverage of technical to social components of agricultural biotechnology is unusually complete and thorough. Their even-handed and comprehensive approach to these topics is rare and extremely valuable." -- Richard Weinzierl, University of Illinois Modern agriculture is being transformed by the genetic alteration of seeds, animals, and microorganisms, a process that has produced such products as flavor saver tomatoes and crops resistant to specific insects or herbicides. Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment is the first comprehensive overview of the ongoing transformation of agriculture, exploring the impact of genetic engineering from scientific, social, ethical, and ecological perspectives. Sheldon Krimsky and Roger Wrubel detail the impact the new generation of products is expected to have on agricultural practice and the environment and assess the degree to which current trends in biotechnology match earlier expectations. They also analyze the social and political response to innovations resulting from genetic technology. Closely examined in each of three areas--transgenic plants, genetically engineered microorganisms, and transgenic animals--are technical and scientific problems, social controversies, and anticipated environmental impacts. An objective, detailed look at a subject of interest to a broad spectrum of readers, Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment will be of interest to researchers in the new biotechnology fields as well as to educated general readers and policymakers. A volume in the series The Environment and the Human Condition
Author : Brent Herbert-Copley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Agricultural biotechnology
ISBN : OCLC:846857034
Author : Smale, Melinda,Zambrano, Patricia,Gruère, Guillaume,Falck-Zepeda, José,Matuschke, Ira,Horna, Daniela,Nagarajan, Latha,Yerramareddy, Indira,Jones, Hannah
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780896295117
As progressively more farmers in developing countries begin using biotech crops, careful evaluation of such crops' benefits becomes ever more important.This food policy review examines the applied economics literature regarding the impact of biotech crops on non-industrialized agriculture, and investigates the research methods used in assessing how these crops affect farmers, consumers, the agricultural sector as a whole, and international trade. This analysis offers a tool for researchers who seek to produce objective, relevant analysis of emerging crop biotechnologies that can in turn be used by national policymakers in developing countries.
Author : Margriet F. Caswell,Keith Owen Fuglie,Cassandra A. Klotz
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Agricultural biotechnology
ISBN : 0788112821
Describes the economic, scientific, and social factors that will influence the future of biotechnology in agriculture. Shows that both private and public sector R&D are contributing significantly to the development of biotechnologies. A review of 23 published studies on the subject.
Author : Marc Lappe,Britt Bailey
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610910675
Engineering the Farm offers a wide-ranging examination of the social and ethical issues surrounding the production and consumption of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), with leading thinkers and activists taking a broad theoretical approach to the subject. Topics covered include: the historical roots of the anti-biotechnology movement ethical issues involved in introducing genetically altered crops questions of patenting and labeling the "precautionary principle" and its role in the regulation of GMOs effects of genetic modification on the world's food supply ecological concerns and impacts on traditional varieties of domesticated crops potential health effects of GMOsContributors argue that the scope, scale, and size of the present venture in crop modification is so vast and intensive that a thoroughgoing review of agricultural biotechnology must consider its global, moral, cultural, and ecological impacts as well as its effects on individual consumers. Throughout, they argue that more research is needed on genetically modified food and that consumers are entitled to specific information about how food products have been developed.Despite its increasing role in worldwide food production, little has been written about the broader social and ethical implications of GMOs. Engineering the Farm offers a unique approach to the subject for academics, activists, and policymakers involved with questions of environmental policy, ethics, agriculture, environmental health, and related fields.
Author : B. N. Prasad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:B3877050
In the context of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Committee on Environmental Impacts Associated with Commercialization of Transgenic Plants
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309170178
Transgenic crops offer the promise of increased agricultural productivity and better quality foods. But they also raise the specter of harmful environmental effects. In this new book, a panel of experts examines: • Similarities and differences between crops developed by conventional and transgenic methods • Potential for commercialized transgenic crops to change both agricultural and nonagricultural landscapes • How well the U.S. government is regulating transgenic crops to avoid any negative effects. Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants provides a wealth of information about transgenic processes, previous experience with the introduction of novel crops, principles of risk assessment and management, the science behind current regulatory schemes, issues in monitoring transgenic products already on the market, and more. The book discusses public involvementâ€"and public confidenceâ€"in biotechnology regulation. And it looks to the future, exploring the potential of genetic engineering and the prospects for environmental effects.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Committee on Environmental Impacts Associated with Commercialization of Transgenic Plants
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309082631
Transgenic crops offer the promise of increased agricultural productivity and better quality foods. But they also raise the specter of harmful environmental effects. In this new book, a panel of experts examines: • Similarities and differences between crops developed by conventional and transgenic methods • Potential for commercialized transgenic crops to change both agricultural and nonagricultural landscapes • How well the U.S. government is regulating transgenic crops to avoid any negative effects. Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants provides a wealth of information about transgenic processes, previous experience with the introduction of novel crops, principles of risk assessment and management, the science behind current regulatory schemes, issues in monitoring transgenic products already on the market, and more. The book discusses public involvementâ€"and public confidenceâ€"in biotechnology regulation. And it looks to the future, exploring the potential of genetic engineering and the prospects for environmental effects.
Author : Daniel Cabirac,Raymond Dobert
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788149121
Contains 214 citations on biotechnology, genetics, transgenics, engineering, bioengineering, manipulation, ecology, hazards, assessment, regulation, & protection. Some citations contain abstracts. Author & subject indices.
Author : Roger Hull,George T. Tzotzos,Graham Head
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080920764
A transgenic organism is a plant, animal, bacterium, or other living organism that has had a foreign gene added to it by means of genetic engineering. Transgenic plants can arise by natural movement of genes between species, by cross-pollination based hybridization between different plant species (which is a common event in flowering plant evolution), or by laboratory manipulations by artificial insertion of genes from another species. Methods used in traditional breeding that generate transgenic plants by non-recombinant methods are widely familiar to professional plant scientists, and serve important roles in securing a sustainable future for agriculture by protecting crops from pest and helping land and water to be used more efficiently.There is worldwide interest in the biosafety issues related to transgenic crops because of issues such as increased pesticide use, increased crop and weed resistance to pesticides, gene flow to related plant species, negative effects on nontarget organisms, and reduced crop and ecosystem diversity. This book is intended to provide the basic information for a wide range of people involved in the release of transgenic crops. These will include scientists and researchers in the initial stage of developing transgenic products, industrialists, and decision makers. It will be of particular interest to plant scientists taking up biotechnological approaches to agricultural improvement for developing nations. Discusses traditional and future technology for genetic modification Compares conventional non-GM approaches and genetic modification Presents a risk assessment methodology for GM techniques Details mitigation techniques for human and environmental effects
Author : Klaus Menrad,Demosthenes Agrafiotis,Christien M. Enzing,Louis Lemkow,Fabio Terragni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642524745
Although the first Agro-Food products based on modem biotechnology (e. g. recombinant chymosin for cheese production; tomato puree based on genetically engineered tomatoes; herbicide-resistant, genetically modified soybean; insect resistant maize) have been introduced in the EU markets in recent years, the application of this technology is still being intensively discussed in the European Union. Recent opinion polls indicate as well that consumers' acceptance of genetically engineered food and agro-products still is relatively low (e. g. European Commission 1997, Hampel et al. 1997), at least in some member states of the EU. In contrast, representatives from politics and industry underline the necessity to apply modem biotechnology in the Agro-Food sector as well, mainly to ensure the competitiveness of EU agriculture and food industry and for employment reasons. Against this background there seems to be a need for a scientific analysis of the future impacts of modem biotechnology in the Agro-Food sector of the EU. Recent studies trying to analyse this issue (e. g. OECD 1992, Teuber 1992) usually comprise extrapolations of status-quo analyses. What has not been exploited so far in this context are systematic technology forecasting approaches which do not include only one single country, but get information on an international level. Therefore, the impacts of modem biotechnology on the Agro-Food sector in five member countries of the EU (Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain) have been analysed with the help of the Delphi methodology which represents one of the most reliable tools for technology forecasting.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Steering Committee on Global Challenges and Directions for Agricultural Biotechnology: Mapping the Course
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309178525
Many developing countries are exploring whether biotechnology has a role in addressing national issues such as food security and environmental remediation, and are considering whether the putative benefits of the technology-for example, enabling greater agricultural productivity and stability in the food supply-outweigh concerns that the technology might pose a danger-to biodiversity, health, and local jobs. Some policy leaders worry that their governments are not prepared to take control of this evolving technology and that introducing it into society would be a risky act. Others have suggested that taking no action carries more risk, given the dire need to produce more food. This book reports on an international workshop held to address these issues. Global Challenges and Directions for Agricultural Biotechnology: Mapping the Course, organized by the National Research Council on October 24-25, 2004, in Washington, DC, focused on the potential applications of biotechnology and what developing countries might consider as they contemplate adopting biotechnology. Presenters at the workshop described applications of biotechnology that are already proving their utility in both developing and developed countries.
Author : Brent Herbert-Copley
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788137327
Partial contents: review of previous studies (employ. impacts of biotechnologies in Latin America: coffee and cocoa in Costa Rica; biotechnology and the future of agricultural development in Mexico); methodological tools and approaches (agricultural biotech. in Latin America: studying its future impacts; biotechnology and agriculture in Brazil: social and economic impacts); integrating impact assessment data into decision-making (improving biotechnology research decision-making with better procedures and information; environmentally sound management of biotechnology in Latin America). Charts and tables.
Author : Matin Qaim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : WISC:89065094294
Crop biotechnology could boost global food production in a sustainable way. However, the economic repercussions of biotechnology for developing countries are largely unknown and have been the subject of acute controversy over the last few years. This study deals with the topic and provides some preliminary empirical results. An analytical framework for the ex ante evaluation of biotechnology in smallholder agriculture is developed, which is then used within three different case studies in Kenya and Mexico. It is shown that biotechnology holds great potentials for poor agricultural producers and consumers. Yet appropriate institutional adjustments are required to capitalize on these potentials. Implications for national and international biotechnology policies are discussed.