Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural Biotechnologies: Canadian Latin-American Perspectives by Brent Herbert-Copley (Author)

ISBN: 9780889367890

Publisher: IDRC, October 1995

Paperback, 137 pages

The workshop on which this volume is based represents one of the first formal activities of the Canada-Latin America Initiative on Biotechnology, the Environment and Sustainable Development. This Initiative is designed to promote the application of biotechnology-based products and applications to respond to critical needs in the agri-food and environmental management sectors of selected Latin American studies. The workshop objectives included the identification of methodological approaches for the assessment of socio-economic and environmental impacts of agricultural biotechnologies. The workshop papers in this volume include reviews of previous studies on biotechnology impacts, studies of methodological tools and approaches to evaluate biotechnology impacts, and studies of the integration of impact assessment data into decision-making.