Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology
Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology Books
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Agricultural (or “green”) biotechnology is a source of growing tensions in the global trading system, particularly between the United States and the European Union. Genetically bespoke food faces an uncertain future. The technology behind it might revolutionize food production nearly the world. Or it might follow the example of nuclear energy, which declined from a symbol of socioeconomic progress to become one of the most unpopular and uneconomical innovations in history.
This book provides novel and plotting-provoking insights into the fundamental policy issues caught up in agricultural biotechnology. Thomas Bernauer clarifies global regulatory polarization and trade conflict in this area. He then evaluates cooperative and unilateral policy tools for coping with trade tensions. Arguing that the tools used thus far have been and will continue to be ineffective, he concludes that the risk of a full-blown trade conflict is high and may lead to reduced investment and the decline of the technology. Bernauer concludes with suggestions for policy reforms to halt this trajectory–recommendations that strike a sensible balance between broadcast-safety concerns and private economic freedom–so that food biotechnology is given a honest opportunity to prove its environmental, health, humanitarian, and economic benefits.
This book will equip companies, farmers, regulators, NGOs, academics, students, and the interested broadcast–including both advocates and critics of green biotechnology–with a deeper understanding of the political, economic, and societal factors shaping the future of one of the most revolutionary technologies of our times.
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