Against the neoliberal steamroller? The Biosafety Protocol and the social regulation of agricultural biotechnologies

Daniel Kleinman () and Abby Kinchy

Agriculture and Human Values, 2007, vol. 24, issue 2, 195-206

Abstract: Through a discursive and organizational analysis we seek to understand the Biosafety Protocol and the place of socioeconomic regulation of agricultural biotechnology in it. The literature on the Protocol has been fairly extensive, but little of it has explored debates over socioeconomic regulation during the negotiation process or the regulatory requirements specified in the final document. This case is especially important at a time when the spread of neoliberalism is increasingly associated with deregulation, because it sheds light on the conditions under which circumvention of the market is deemed legitimate and socio-economic regulation of agricultural technology is possible. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2007

Keywords: Biosafety Protocol; Biotechnology; Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; Convention on Biodiversity; Genetically modified crops; Genetically modified foods; Genetically modified organisms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/s10460-006-9049-6

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