Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology

Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology
ISBN-10
0691113483
ISBN-13
9780691113487
Category
Political Science
Pages
229
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Author
Thomas Bernauer

Description

This book provides novel and thought-provoking insights into the fundamental policy issues involved in agricultural biotechnology. Thomas Bernauer explains global regulatory polarization and trade conflict in this area. He then evaluates co-operative and unilateral policy tools for coping with trade tensions. Arguing that the tools used thus far have been and will continue to be ineffective, he concludes that the risk of a full-blown trade conflict is high and may lead to reduced investment and the decline of the technology. Bernauer concludes with suggestions for policy reforms to halt this trajectory -recommendations that strike a balance between public-safety concerns and private economic freedom - so that food biotechnology is given a fair chance to prove its environmental, health, humanitarian and economic benefits.

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