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| Date: | 06.07.2005 to 10.07.2005 |
| Location: | Ravello Italy |
| Keywords: | Agriculture - Biosafety - Biotechnology - Genetic research/engineering - Intellectual property/Patenting - Sustainable development |
| Details: | Ten years have passed since the first biotech varieties were made available to farmers for cultivation. In this decade those varieties have spread in numerous developed and developing countries, although at different speed and scope. Farmers and consumers acceptance have been different from place to place and in several occasions have interacted. In some cases in fact farmers although attracted by the advantages of those new varieties have been concerned upon the acceptance of their produce on the export markets. During this decade an increasing number of biotech varieties and processes have been invented and commercialised. The presence of those varieties have attracted public attention and stirred public debates. In important markets - as those of the European Union - production and commercialization of those products have been ? for several years ? practically banned. Now the situation is gradually evolving and a new regulatory framework has been set to govern production and trade.... As those biotechnology products have become increasingly available, policy issues relating their trade, domestic production and consumption seems to have gained paramount relevance in the national and international agricultural policy arena and have also acquired some more general relevance as well. Increasingly important has become the capacity of governments to envision and enforce an appropriate set of rules to ensure a sustainable development if this sector. Among others in this regard the experience in Brazil and India is very instructive. The Ravello's Conference will focus on the following topics: Impact of agricultural biotechnology on international trade Industrial organization Public acceptance Impact of science Intellectual property rights Biotechnology & developing countries Regulation of biotechnology Biomasses and new products Governance issues for the biotechnology sector Biotechnology, trade and development Ecogenomics and ecoproteomics |
| Organizer: | International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR) |
| Contact: | Vittorio Santaniello Address: University of Rome " Tor Vergata ", Via Columbia 2, 00133 - Rome, Italy Tel: Fax: +39 06 72595721 Email: icabr@economia.uniroma2.it |
| Webpage: | http://www.economia.uniroma2.it/conferenze/icabr2005/ |
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