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Finding a Formula to Ensure the Safety of the Environment While Benefiting from Biotechnology

Author:Ariel Alvarez-Morales
Description:This paper using Mexico as a case study looks at issues that constrain utilisation of biotechnology; incomplete or missing legislation regarding the experimental release or commercialization of GMOs; limited experience with GMOs; limited scientific and technological capabilities to assess the risk of GMOs; substantial areas rich in biodiversity; presence of wild relatives of one or more cultivated species for which a transgenic derivative exists; low levels of education.
Countries:Mexico
Type:Internet Article
URL:http://www.cgiar.org/biotechc/alvarez.htm
Date entered:2001-10-09

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