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Sustaining a revolution : a policy strategy for crop engineering : a paper / by David G. Victor and C. Ford Runge based on a Council on Foreign Relations Study Group.
LIBRA S494.5.G44 V53 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Victor, David G.
- Series:
- Council on Foreign Relations paper
- Council on Foreign Relations paper.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural biotechnology--Government policy--United States.
- Agricultural biotechnology.
- Agricultural biotechnology--Patents.
- Genetically modified foods--Government policy--United States.
- Genetically modified foods.
- Transgenetic plants--Research--United States.
- Transgenetic plants.
- Genetically modified foods--Government policy.
- Patents.
- Agricultural biotechnology--Government policy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 51 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Council on Foreign Relations, [2002]
- Summary:
- Genetically modified (GM) foods hold enormous economic, social, and nutritional potential but have also engendered strong opposition. Whether the promise of these agricultural innovations will ultimately be realized or derailed depends on the policies adopted by governments and firms during the next few years.
- This paper outlines a long-term strategy for crop engineering and its implications for U.S. policy. It implores the U.S. and European governments not to lock horns in a formal trade dispute through the World Trade Organization over access to European markets for U.S.-produced GM foods. Instead, the authors argue, the United States should side with other countries, including China, more likely to advance this innovation. The United States should also reinvigorate its investment in public agricultural research targeted to help the poorest farmers and consumers and lead efforts to create new mechanisms for sharing the intellectual-property rights essential to realizing this new technology's full potential.
- Contents:
- Sustaining a Revolution
- Introduction: "Prometheus Entangled" 1
- Gene Machines in the Garden 11
- The First Generation 16
- The Next Generation 22
- A Humanitarian Face for Biotechnology 33
- A Great Transformation 41
- Reprise 45.
- ISBN:
- 0876093128
- OCLC:
- 50008729
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