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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783106303321

Titolo

The regulation of agricultural biotechnology / / edited by R.E. Evenson and V. Santaniello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; ; Cambridge, MA, : CABI Pub., c2004

ISBN

1-280-86624-1

9786610866243

0-85199-970-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EvensonRobert E <1934-> (Robert Eugene)

SantanielloV

Disciplina

631.5/23

Soggetti

Agricultural biotechnology - Law and legislation

Agricultural biotechnology - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally presented at the Sixth International Conference of the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR), held at  Ravello, Italy, in July 2002"--P. xiii.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contributors; Acknowledgements; Editors' Introduction; 1 Regulation of GM Crops: Shaping an International Regime; 2 The Evolving GMO Food Trade Policy Debate: Towards a Global Regulatory Regime?; 3 International Proposals to Regulate Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Genetic Resources; 4 Genetically Engineered Food Labelling: Global Policy Polarization; 5 Conflict and Consensus-building: International Commercial Policy and Agricultural Biotechnology; 6 The Rationale Behind WTO Agreements and Agricultural GMO Controversy1

7 Trade Restrictions on Genetically Engineered Foods: the Application of the TBT Agreement8 Environmental Liability and Research and Development in Biotechnology: a Real Options Approach; 9 Should the Public Sector Conduct Genomics R&D?; 10 The Case for Differentiated Appropriability in Intellectual Property Rights for Plant Varieties; 11 Biotechnology and Developing Countries: the Struggle over Intellectual Property Rights and Implications for Biodiversity Conservation

12 Intellectual Property Strategy in the Context of Inter-organizational Relations: the Case of International Agricultural Research13 R&D Incentives for GM Seeds: Restricted Monopoly, Non-market Effects, and



Regulation; 14 Agricultural Biotech R&D Structure: Cyclical or Not?; 15 The Innovation System in Agro-food Biotechnology - is it European?; 16 How Firm Characteristics Influence Innovative Activity in Agricultural Biotechnology; 17 Dynamic Pricing of GM Crop Traits; 18 Identity Preservation, Segregation and Traceability: Marketplace Features and Uses

19 Segmentation of GMO and non-GMO Soybean Markets under Identity Preservation Costs and Government Price Supports20 EU Traceability and the US Soybean Sector; 21 Segregation of Non-biotech Maize and Soybeans: Who Bears the Cost?; 22 Future Impact of New Technologies: Three Scenarios, their Competence Gaps and Research Implications; 23 Ex Ante Welfare Effects of Agricultural Biotechnology in the European Union: the Case of Transgenic Herbicide Tolerant Sugarbeet1

24 The Economic Impacts of Agricultural Biotechnology on International Trade, Consumers, and Producers: the Case of Maize and Soybeans in the USAIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This volume of 24 chapters reviews the regulatory changes in agricultural biotechnology. It primarily considers the relationship between these changes and innovation, market development and international trade.