This book presents 21 selected revised and edited papers from the 4th and 5th meetings of the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research, held in Italy in 2000 and 2001. Topics covered include: intellectual property rights and technological exchange; public-private issues; genetic technologies and methods; developing country experiences; and international models. The book will be of interest to those working within agricultural biotechnology and agricultural economics. The book has a subject index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. From the green revolution to the gene revolution; 2. Conflicts in intellectual property rights in genetic resources: implications for agricultural biotechnology; 3. Sui generis protection of plant varieties in Asian agriculture: a regional regime in the making?; 4. Intellectual property aspects of traditional agricultural knowledge; 5. Farmers' rights and intellectual property rights - reconciling conflicting concepts; 6. Universities, technology transfer and industrial R&D; 7. Mergers and intellectual property in agricultural biotechnology; 8. Cost of conserving genetic resources at ex Situ Genebanks: an example of the ICARDA Genebank; 9. Impact for terminator technologies in developing countries: a framework for economic analysis; 10. The impact of genetic use restriction technologies on developing countries: a forecast; 11. Managing proprietary technology in agricultural research; 12. Is marker-assisted selection cost-effective compared with conventional plant breeding methods? the case of quality protein maize; 13. Can biotechnology reach the poor? the adequacy of information and seed delivery; 14. Value of engineered virus resistance in crop plants and technology cooperation with developing countries; 15. Institutions and institutional capacity for biotechnology - a case study of India; 16. Social and economic impact Ex Ante evaluation of embrapa's biotechnology research products; 17. Intellectual property protection and the international marketing of agricultural biotechnology: firm and host country impacts; 18. Efficiency effects of Bt cotton adoption by smalholders; 19. Income and employment effects of transgenic herbicide-resistant cassava in Colombia: a preliminary simulation; 20. Estimating the economic effects of GMOs: the importance of policy choices and preferences; 21. Smalholders, transgenic varieties and production efficiency: the case of cotton farmers in China.