GM Crop Risk-Benefit Debate
January 6, 2012| |
The open source version of The GM Crop Risk-Benefit Debate: Science and Socio-Economics - A Plea for a New Regulatory System for a Modern Agriculture by Klaus Ammann is now available at http://www.ask-force.org/web/Sustainability/Ammann-Strategy-GMO-Debate-20120105-opensource.pdf
The report discusses, among others, the situation regarding the debate on green biotech, developments in risk handling of GM crops, and costs and lost benefits of overregulation.
The text will appear in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology.
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