Agricultural biotechnology: the next "green revolution"?

This technical report is based on a series of commissioned papers prepared for the Canberra Seminar, country studies, and consultation concerning biotechnology conducted during 1988-89. The results are presented in this report, organized around the following topics:  the likely socioeconomic impact of biotechnology on world trade and economic development, opportunities for the application of biotechnology on world trade and economic development, opportunities for the application of biotechnology in crops, forestry, and livestock production, the issues connected with managing intellectual propery, the need for risk assessment prior to the release of genetically engineered organisms into the environment, the opportunities for private/public sector cooperation, the future role of international centers in bringing the new biotechnology to their client countries and the policy, educational, and management issues of concern to national agricultural research systems seeking to adopt biotechnological techniques.

Publication Details

• Published: 1991
• Publisher: World Bank
• ISBN-10: 0821317415
• Dewey Decimal: 338.161
• ECHO Library: 338.161 WOR