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Agricultural biotechnology
Agricultural productivity
Agriculture
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Biotechnology
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Commercialization
Commodity
Competitiveness
Consumer confidence
Consumer protection
Crop Production
De facto
Decision-making
Directive (European Union)
Emerging technologies
Environmental protection
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European Commission
Expense
Field trial
Food additive
Food industry
Food processor
Food safety
Food security
Genetically modified crops
Genetically modified food
Genetically modified maize
Globalization
Green Revolution
Hectare
Herbicide
Identity preservation
Information asymmetry
Ingredient
International trade
Jurisdiction
Legislation
Lobbying
Mandatory labelling
Marketing strategy
Member state
Microorganism
Moratorium (law)
Occupational safety and health
Patent
Pest control
Pesticide
Policy
Politics
Precautionary principle
Private sector
Product differentiation
Protectionism
Regulation
Regulatory agency
Requirement
Research and development
Risk assessment
Social science
Soybean
Subsidy
Substantial equivalence
Supply (economics)
Technology
Trade restriction
United States Department of Agriculture
Vertical integration
World Trade Organization
Product details
- ISBN 9780691113487
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 07 Dec 2003
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Agricultural (or "green") biotechnology is a source of growing tensions in the global trading system, particularly between the United States and the European Union. Genetically modified food faces an uncertain future. The technology behind it might revolutionize food production around the world. Or it might follow the example of nuclear energy, which declined from a symbol of socioeconomic progress to become one of the most unpopular and uneconomical innovations in history. 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 cooperative 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 sensible 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. This book will equip companies, farmers, regulators, NGOs, academics, students, and the interested public--including both advocates and critics of green biotechnology--with a deeper understanding of the political, economic, and societal factors shaping the future of one of the most revolutionary technologies of our times.
Thomas Bernauer is Professor of Political Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and a widely published author on international economic and environmental issues.
