Author: N. Patrick Peritore
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842025577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The different challenges posed by the growth of biotechnology have been keenly felt in Latin America. This work examines how biotechnology can be made to serve developing nations rather than provide another route for exploitation by First-World industry.
Biotechnology in Latin America
Author: N. Patrick Peritore
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842025577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The different challenges posed by the growth of biotechnology have been keenly felt in Latin America. This work examines how biotechnology can be made to serve developing nations rather than provide another route for exploitation by First-World industry.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842025577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The different challenges posed by the growth of biotechnology have been keenly felt in Latin America. This work examines how biotechnology can be made to serve developing nations rather than provide another route for exploitation by First-World industry.
Biotechnology in Europe and Latin America
Author: Bernardo Sorj
Publisher: SciELO - Centro Edelstein
ISBN: 8579820367
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The materials presented at the conference have been updated and edited, to give in this book an up-to-date picture of capabilities and common IV interests. Although inevitably any book on biotechnology is obsolete by the time it appears, there is nothing obsolescent about the dynamism now being displayed in the development of the bioindustries in both continents. We hope that the presentations assembled in this volume will testify to this dynamic development, and stimulate its further promotion. [excerpt taken from the book's Preface]
Publisher: SciELO - Centro Edelstein
ISBN: 8579820367
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The materials presented at the conference have been updated and edited, to give in this book an up-to-date picture of capabilities and common IV interests. Although inevitably any book on biotechnology is obsolete by the time it appears, there is nothing obsolescent about the dynamism now being displayed in the development of the bioindustries in both continents. We hope that the presentations assembled in this volume will testify to this dynamic development, and stimulate its further promotion. [excerpt taken from the book's Preface]
Employment and Income Effects of Biotechnology in Latin America
Author: Regina M. A. A. Galhardi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Food for the Few
Author: Gerardo Otero
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292752830
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Recent decades have seen tremendous changes in Latin America's agricultural sector, resulting from a broad program of liberalization instigated under pressure from the United States, the IMF, and the World Bank. Tariffs have been lifted, agricultural markets have been opened and privatized, land reform policies have been restricted or eliminated, and the perspective has shifted radically toward exportation rather than toward the goal of feeding local citizens. Examining the impact of these transformations, the contributors to Food for the Few: Neoliberal Globalism and Biotechnology in Latin America paint a somber portrait, describing local peasant farmers who have been made responsible for protecting impossibly vast areas of biodiversity, or are forced to specialize in one genetically modified crop, or who become low-wage workers within a capitalized farm complex. Using dozens of examples such as these, the deleterious consequences are surveyed from the perspectives of experts in diverse fields, including anthropology, economics, geography, political science, and sociology. From Kathy McAfee's "Exporting Crop Biotechnology: The Myth of Molecular Miracles," to Liz Fitting's "Importing Corn, Exporting Labor: The Neoliberal Corn Regime, GMOs, and the Erosion of Mexican Biodiversity," Food for the Few balances disturbing findings with hopeful assessments of emerging grassroots alternatives. Surveying not only the Latin American conditions that led to bankruptcy for countless farmers but also the North's practices, such as the heavy subsidies implemented to protect North American farmers, these essays represent a comprehensive, keenly informed response to a pivotal global crisis.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292752830
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Recent decades have seen tremendous changes in Latin America's agricultural sector, resulting from a broad program of liberalization instigated under pressure from the United States, the IMF, and the World Bank. Tariffs have been lifted, agricultural markets have been opened and privatized, land reform policies have been restricted or eliminated, and the perspective has shifted radically toward exportation rather than toward the goal of feeding local citizens. Examining the impact of these transformations, the contributors to Food for the Few: Neoliberal Globalism and Biotechnology in Latin America paint a somber portrait, describing local peasant farmers who have been made responsible for protecting impossibly vast areas of biodiversity, or are forced to specialize in one genetically modified crop, or who become low-wage workers within a capitalized farm complex. Using dozens of examples such as these, the deleterious consequences are surveyed from the perspectives of experts in diverse fields, including anthropology, economics, geography, political science, and sociology. From Kathy McAfee's "Exporting Crop Biotechnology: The Myth of Molecular Miracles," to Liz Fitting's "Importing Corn, Exporting Labor: The Neoliberal Corn Regime, GMOs, and the Erosion of Mexican Biodiversity," Food for the Few balances disturbing findings with hopeful assessments of emerging grassroots alternatives. Surveying not only the Latin American conditions that led to bankruptcy for countless farmers but also the North's practices, such as the heavy subsidies implemented to protect North American farmers, these essays represent a comprehensive, keenly informed response to a pivotal global crisis.
biotechnolgy and iica: a framework for disseminating sharing biotechnology in latin america and the caribbean
Author:
Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural Biotechnologies
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 0889367892
Category : Agricultural biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural Biotechnologies: Canadian-Latin American Perspectives
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 0889367892
Category : Agricultural biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural Biotechnologies: Canadian-Latin American Perspectives
Biotechnology in Latin America
Author: Rainer Jonas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Biotechnology in Europe and Latin America
Author: Bernardo Sorj
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789400923904
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The accession of Spain and Portugal to membership of the European Community in January 1985 not only brought new vitality to the European initiative, but served as a powerful reminder of the broader dimensions of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. A reinforcement of Europe's natural and historical interna tionalism of outlook was particularly relevant in the context of biotechnology; for the sophisticated multi-disciplinary scientific base, and the several broad application areas, force on biotechnol ogy an internationalism both for access to scientific capability, and for access to worldwide markets. Such was the rationale for 'SOBELA': a 'Seminar on Biotechnol ogy in Europe and Latin America', which in April 1987 brought some 50 Latin American entrepreneurs, policy-makers and academic leaders to Europe and to Brussels. At the Commission's Borschette Conference Centre, they heard presentations from eleven of the Community Member States, each emphasising its strengths in bio technology and its interest in promoting industrial collaboration with firms in Latin America. The seminar was opened by speeches from Vice-President Karl Heinz Narjes on behalf of the Commission, and by His Excellency Luis Ramiro Alfonsin of Argentina, senior Latin American diplomat in Brussels. In the closing session, Directors-General Paolo Fasella (Science, Research and Development, DG XII) and Jean Durieux (External Relations, DG I) welcomed Their Excellencies the ambas sadors from Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789400923904
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The accession of Spain and Portugal to membership of the European Community in January 1985 not only brought new vitality to the European initiative, but served as a powerful reminder of the broader dimensions of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. A reinforcement of Europe's natural and historical interna tionalism of outlook was particularly relevant in the context of biotechnology; for the sophisticated multi-disciplinary scientific base, and the several broad application areas, force on biotechnol ogy an internationalism both for access to scientific capability, and for access to worldwide markets. Such was the rationale for 'SOBELA': a 'Seminar on Biotechnol ogy in Europe and Latin America', which in April 1987 brought some 50 Latin American entrepreneurs, policy-makers and academic leaders to Europe and to Brussels. At the Commission's Borschette Conference Centre, they heard presentations from eleven of the Community Member States, each emphasising its strengths in bio technology and its interest in promoting industrial collaboration with firms in Latin America. The seminar was opened by speeches from Vice-President Karl Heinz Narjes on behalf of the Commission, and by His Excellency Luis Ramiro Alfonsin of Argentina, senior Latin American diplomat in Brussels. In the closing session, Directors-General Paolo Fasella (Science, Research and Development, DG XII) and Jean Durieux (External Relations, DG I) welcomed Their Excellencies the ambas sadors from Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia.
The Importance of New Biotechnology for Latin America and the Caribbean
Author:
Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Excellence Under Adversity
Author: Cristián Orrego
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Sociedades científicas; Cooperação em ciência; Programas regionais em ciência e tecnologia na América Latina; Fundos Internacionais para programas individuais de biotecnologia em países da América Latina; Surgimento de empresas de biotecnologia na América Latina; Tendências atuais doas fundos internacionais para ciência e tecnologia na América Latina; Aspectos das ciências biologicas na América Latina.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Sociedades científicas; Cooperação em ciência; Programas regionais em ciência e tecnologia na América Latina; Fundos Internacionais para programas individuais de biotecnologia em países da América Latina; Surgimento de empresas de biotecnologia na América Latina; Tendências atuais doas fundos internacionais para ciência e tecnologia na América Latina; Aspectos das ciências biologicas na América Latina.