Rethinking the Risk Management Process for Genetically Engineered Crop Varieties in Small-scale, Traditionally Based Agriculture.

Cleveland, David A.; Soleri, Daniela

This article focuses on the risk management process for genetically engineered crop (GE) varieties in small-scale, traditionally based agriculture. There is heated global debate over whether GE crop varieties will be good or bad for the environment and society. Opponents of GE crops vigorously attack them as inappropriate for the Third World. They see the profit motivation of private corporations as incompatible with the goal of alleviating hunger and helping farmers, and GE crops as making problems in the Third World worse. They point out that Third World farmers are unlikely to benefit even from GE crops developed specifically for them, as with the GE potato in Mexico.

MEXICO; GENETIC engineering of crops; AGRICULTURAL scientists; RURAL industries; FARMERS; DEVELOPING countries

Ecology & Society, 2005, Vol 10, Issue 1, p1

1708-3087

Academic Journal

10.5751/ES-01243-100109