The future of food : biotechnology markets and policies in an international setting / edited by Philip G. Pardey.

Washington, D.C. : International Food Policy Research : Distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, [2001], ©2001.

xii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Revised versions of papers presented at a workshop on Agricultural Biotechnology: Markets and Policies in an International Setting, held January 22, 2001 in Adelaide, Australia, sponsored by the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society and the International Food Policy Research Institute.

pt. 1. Introduction. Biotechnology markets and policies / Philip G. Pardey -- Agricultural biotechnology : an Australian perspective on a global science -- pt. 2. Looking forward on a global scale. Rich and poor country perspectives on biotechnology / Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Marc J. Cohen -- Estimating the global economic effects on GMOs / Kym Anderson ... [et al.] -- Transcending transgenics : are there "babies in the bathwater" or is that a dorsal fin? / Richard A. Jefferson. Comment / Brian Fisher -- pt. 3. Intellectual property policies and practice. Addressing freedom-to-operate questions for international agricultural R & D / Carol Nottenburg, Philip G. Pardey, and Brian D. Wright -- Public good and private greed : realizing public benefits from privatized global agrifood research / Peter W.B. Phillips and Dan Dierker. Comment / Ron Duncan ; Bob Lindner -- pt. 4. Biotechnology impacts : the economic evidence. Agricultural biotechnology : a critical review of the impact evidence to date / Michele C. Marra -- The economics of herbicide-tolerant wheat and bifurcation of world markets / Richard Gray -- Potential impacts of biotechnology-assisted selection on plant breeding programs in developing countries / Michael L. Morris ... [et al.] -- pt. 5. Regional perspectives on biotechnology policies. Agricultural biotechnology and rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean / Eduardo J. Trigo ... [et al.] -- Biotechnology policies for Asia : current activities and future options / John Skerrit -- The U.S. biotech story : as told by economists at USDA / Nicole Ballenger -- pt. 6. Concluding comments. Rural R & D technology policy / Jock R. Anderson -- Biotechnology policy issues / Walter J. Armbruster -- Public policy responses to biotechnology / Bob Richardson.

Includes bibliographical references.