Biotechniques and the Neglect of Alternative Agriculture

Dominic Hogg
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Dominic Hogg: ECOTEC Research and Consultancy

Chapter 7 in Technological Change in Agriculture, 2000, pp 209-244 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter moves us from the past to the present, with an eye to the future. It makes the claim that, despite the emergence of alternatives discussed in Chapter 1, the trend towards genetic uniformity is likely to be perpetuated owing to the emphasis now placed upon new biotechniques.1 Biotechniques provide more powerful tools to achieve genetically uniform ideal plants, but they could also be deployed as part of strategies aimed at promoting deployment of in situ diversity. The argument presented here is that biotechniques are closing the door which alternative movements managed to prise open, if only briefly, in the 1980s. This could be made in various ways, but here, the argument is developed through analysis of the intellectual property rights (IPR) issue, since this has radically affected the issue of genetic resource control in recent years.

Keywords: Indigenous People; World Trade Organisation; Intellectual Property Right; Intellectual Property Right Protection; Seed Industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333981252_8

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