Trading in genes
Subtitle: development perspectives on biotechnology, trade, and sustainability
By: edited by Vicente Sánchez and Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz.
Contributors: Sánchez, Vicente.; Meléndez-Ortiz, Ricardo.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781844070275; 9781844070282
Subjects: Biotechnology -- Developing countries.; Biotechnology industries -- Developing countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Weighing biotechnology on the scales of sustainable development; title: Developing countries in the global bioeconomy : emerging issues / Calestous Juma and Victor Konde; title: From biotech innovation to the market : economic factors driving the south's competitiveness in biotechnology / Carlos M Correa; title: Biotechnology : a turning point in development or an opportunity that will be missed? / Joseph Gopo and Patricia Kameri-Mbote; title: Trade in biotechnology : development and the clash of collective preferences / Heike Baumüller; title: Benefiting from agricultural biotechnology : challenges for developing countries / Padmashree Gehl Sampath; title: Approaching biotechnology : experiences from Brazil and Argentina / Maurício Antônio Lopes ... [et al.]; title: Addressing challenges of tropical agriculture : Colombia's cassava case / Paul Chavarriaga-Aguirre, Douglas Pachico, and Joe Tohme; title: Trade in biotechnology : new challenges in an old playground; title: Intellectual property and biotechnology : trade interests of developing countries / Jayashree Watal; title: Closing in on biopiracy : legal dilemmas and opportunities for the south / Jakkrit Kuanpoth; title: Balancing biosafety and trade : the negotiating history of the Cartagena Protocol / Juan Mayr and Adriana Soto; title: The Cartagena Protocol on biosafety : a new hot spot in the trade-environment conflict? / Veit Koester; title: Building sound governance structures for the safe application of biotechnology / Arturo Martinez and Kakoli Ghosh; title: Regulating trade in GMOs : biotechnology and the WTO / Christiane Wolff; title: The emerging global biotech trade regime : a developing country perspective / Atul Kaushik.