Agricultural Biodiversity and Biotechnology in Economic Development

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Nineteen papers summarize knowledge and policy debate on the management of biodiversity and biotechnology. Papers consider major processes shaping the evolution of agriculture, biotechnology, and biodiversity; the implications of biotechnology for biodiversity; the economic value of genetic diversity for crop improvement; managing crop biological diversity on farms; in situ conservation; understanding the factors driving on-farm crop genetic diversity; the costs of conservation; the sharing of benefits from the use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture; economic criteria for the multilateral distribution of agricultural biodiversity conservation funds; modeling the impacts of bargaining power in the multilateral distribution of agricultural biodiversity conservation funds; concepts, evolution, and applications of agricultural biotechnology; the potential of biotechnology to promote agricultural development and food security; the impact of biotechnology on crop genetic diversity; establishing effective intellectual property rights and reducing barriers to entry in Canadian agricultural biotechnology research; adoption of biotechnology in developing countries; the potential role of biotechnology as a source for technological change in agriculture resulting in poverty reduction; steps toward an intellectual property clearinghouse for agricultural biotechnology; policies to promote the conservation and sustainable use of agricultural biodiversity; and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and other international agreements on plant genetic resources and related biotechnologies. Cooper is at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Lipper is with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Zilberman is at the University of California, Berkeley. Author and subject indexes.

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Agricultural Biodiversity and Biotechnology in Economic Development. (2005). Agricultural Biodiversity and Biotechnology in Economic Development. Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/b107322

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