Barbara Woodward, Johan Brink, and Dave BergerARC-Roodeplaat Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institue, South Africa There has been much recent discussion on the potential impact of biotechnology on development in Africa. Can agricultural biotechnology make a significant difference, or would a strategy combining…
Cesar A. FalconiInternational Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) In 1998, the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) conducted a biotechnology research indicator survey of four national agricultural research systems in Mexico, Kenya, Indonesia, and Zimbabwe. Some of the policy recommendations…
Suman SahaiGene Campaign Biotechnology is comprised of a continuum of technologies ranging from long-established and widely applied technologies to more recent recombinant DNA (rDNA) techniques. Several of the technologies are reviewed in this paper, along with specific applications in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia,…
Greg TraxlerAuburn University and International Center for the Improvement of Maize and Wheat (CIMMYT) Although genetically modified varieties (GMVs) have been commercially successful in the United States(US), their future in developing countries (DCs) with smaller markets is uncertain. How likely is it…
William A. Kerr, Jill E. Hobbs, and Revadee YampoinUniversity of Saskatchewan, Canada; University of Saskatchewan, Canada; and Kasetsart University, Thailand The international protection of intellectual property has been a contentious issue between developed and developing countries. Protection of intellectual property rights in…
George TzotzosUnited Nations Industrial Development Organization The diffusion of biotechnology in most countries of the developing world is likely to take the form of embedded technologies (transgenic seed). In some countries with an incipient science and technology capacity diffusion is likely to…
Per Pinstrup-AndersenInternational Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Developing countries and their low-income people could benefit significantly from the development and use of modern biotechnology in agriculture within a proper biosafety regime. However, international agreements on biosafety, biodiversity, and trade, over which poor…
Calestous JumaHarvard University Agricultural biotechnology is the subject of extensive public debates in many countries. This article presents a summary of the results of the International Conference on Biotechnology in the Global Economy held in September 1999 at Harvard University. The article…
C.S. PrakashTuskegee University There are now six billion of us on the planet for the first time in history. Although the six billionth child was symbolically born in Sarajevo according to the United Nations (UN), it was most likely born in an…
Miguel A. Altieri and Peter RossetUniversity of California, Berkeley & Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy Upon reflecting on McGloughlin’s response to our original essay it becomes quite clear that we and she speak from different world views. Where she sees…
