Genetically Modified Diplomacy
The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment
Description
When genetically engineered seeds were first deployed in the
Americas in the mid-1990s, the biotechnology industry and its partners
envisaged a world in which their crops would be widely accepted as the
food of the future. Critics, however, raised a variety of social,
environmental, economic, and health concerns. This book traces the
emergence of the 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety – and
the discourse of precaution toward GEOs that the protocol
institutionalized internationally. Peter Andrée explains this reversal
in the "common-sense" understanding of genetic engineering,
and discusses the new debates it has engendered.