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Changing consumer demands can drive biotechnology adoption

Author
Offutt, Susan
Abstract
It is worth emphasizing the importance of understanding causality — why events happen —in trying to assess the role of biotechnology in the food and agriculture systems of both developed and developing nations. There is currently much change in these sectors, and so care must be taken to evaluate these changes objectively and not lay blame on any one of these changes. Consumers play a decisive role in this evaluation. Only by understanding causality will there be a serious prospect of affecting outcomes, which is the real reason to be thoughtful in sorting through the complexity and ambiguity of change.
Date Issued
1999Publisher
NABC
Subject
Agricultural biotechnology; consolidation; factory farming; organic farming; food insecurity; IPM; globalization; enviromental protection; human health; nutrition; patents;
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Type
book chapter
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