Transgenic crops, EU precaution, and developing countries
Date
2006
Authors
Anderson, Kym
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Inderscience Publishers
Abstract
Agricultural biotechnologies have the potential to offer higher
incomes for farmers in developing countries and lower-priced and
better-quality food, feed and fibre. That potential is being heavily
compromised, however, because of strict regulatory systems in the European
Union and elsewhere governing transgenically modified (GM) crops. This
paper examines why the EU has taken the extreme opposite policy position on
GM food to equally affluent North America, what has been the impact on
developing country welfare of the limited adoption of GM crop varieties so far,
and what impact GM adoption by developing countries themselves could have
on their economic welfare.
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agricultural biotechnology, trade policy, regulation of standards, developing countries
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International Journal of Technology and Globalisation
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Open Access