Description
There are currently many controversial socioeconomic issues concerned with the development and implementation of agricultural biotechnology. This book presents selected revised and edited papers from the fourth and fifth meetings of the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research, held in Italy in 2000 and 2001.
Chapter
Chapter 2 Conflicts in Intellectual Property Rights of Genetic Resources: Implications for Agricultural Biotechnology1
Chapter 3 Sui generis Protection of Plant Varieties in Asian Agriculture: a Regional Regime in the Making?
Chapter 4 Intellectual Property Aspects of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge
Chapter 5 Farmers’ Rights and Intellectual Property Rights – Reconciling Conflicting Concepts
Chapter 6 Universities, Technology Transfer and Industrial R&D
Chapter 7 Mergers and Intellectual Property in Agricultural Biotechnology
Chapter 8 Cost of Conserving Genetic Resources at ex Situ Genebanks: an Example of the ICARDA Genebank
Chapter 9 Impact of Terminator Technologies in Developing Countries: a Framework for Economic Analysis
Chapter 10 The Impact of Genetic Use Restriction Technologies on Developing Countries: a Forecast
Chapter 11 Managing Proprietary Technology in Agricultural Research
Chapter 12 Is Marker-assisted Selection Cost-effective Compared with Conventional Plant Breeding Methods? The Case of Quality Protein Maize
Chapter 13 Can Biotechnology Reach the Poor? The Adequacy of Information and Seed Delivery*
Chapter 14 Value of Engineered Virus Resistance in Crop Plants and Technology Cooperation with Developing Countries
Chapter 15 Institutions and Institutional Capacity for Biotechnology – a Case Study of India
Chapter 16 Social and Economic Impact Ex Ante Evaluation of Embrapa’s Biotechnology Research Products
Chapter 17 Intellectual Property Protection and the International Marketing of Agricultural Biotechnology: Firm and Host Country Impacts
Chapter 18 Efficiency Effects of Bt Cotton Adoption by Smallholders in Makhathini Flats, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Chapter 19 Income and Employment Effects of Transgenic Herbicide-resistant Cassava in Colombia: a Preliminary Simulation
Chapter 20 Estimating the Economic Effects of GMOs: the Importance of Policy Choices and Preferences
Chapter 21 Smallholders, Transgenic Varieties, and Production Efficiency: the Case of Cotton Farmers in China
Economic and Social Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology
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