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Genes, Trade, and Regulation - The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology (Paperback)
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Genes, Trade, and Regulation - The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology (Paperback)
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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.
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