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category: Political Science
published: May 2007
ISBN:9780774812689
publisher: UBC Press

Genetically Modified Diplomacy

The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment

by Peter Andrée

tagged: trade & tariffs, biotechnology, environmental conservation & protection, diplomacy
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.

About the Author

Peter Andrée

Contributor Notes

Peter Andrée is an assistant professor of political science at Carleton University.

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