Agricultural Biotechnology in DevelopingAgricultural biotechnology in developing nations: place, role and contradictions

Abstract

Agricultural biotechnology holds the scientific/technological potential to deliver many benefits to developing nations; yet, its present development world-wide is not without contradictions. The political process through which powerful socioeconomic and political forces interact shape the nature and direction the biorevolution, Agricultural biotechnology is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to assure access to food by all social groups.