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Political Science Trade & Tariffs

Genetically Modified Diplomacy

The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment

by (author) Peter Andrée

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2008
Category
Trade & Tariffs, Biotechnology, Environmental Conservation & Protection, General, Diplomacy
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774812696
    Publish Date
    Jan 2008
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774812689
    Publish Date
    May 2007
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774840965
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $30.95

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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 is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University.

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