Economic and social issues in agricultural biotechnology

摘要

In June 2001, the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research convened a conference entitled 'Biotechnology, Science and Modern Agriculture: a New Industry at the Dawn of the Century'. Selected papers from that conference form the basis of this book. It is a collection of 21 papers involving 68 authors. The editors do not state their criteria for selecting papers, yet they reveal their intention to compile papers that address 'some of the major economic and institutional problems affecting the creation and international exchange of agricultural biotechnologies.' (p. xi) The result of their labours is a 421 page book comprising five sections.