Agricultural Biotechnology and Transatlantic Trade

Agricultural Biotechnology and Transatlantic Trade: Regulatory Barriers to GM Crops

Author: G E Isaac
ISBN: 9780851995809
Pages: 320
Format: 16 X 23,5
Binding: Hardback
Pub. Year: 2002

Readership
Academics, students and policy-makers in agricultural economics and biotechnology

Key Features
• Identifies issues facing policy makers on both sides of the issues
• Proposes a regulatory strategy to overcome the challenge
• Adopts an interdisciplinary approach, covering economic, political, sociological and legal factors

Main Description
Genetically modified (GM) agricultural crops which are approved as safe in North America (Canada and the United States) are facing significant regulatory hurdles in gaining access to the European Union. The development and commercialization of GM crops illustrate a complex challenge facing trade diplomacy - the challenge of regulatory regionalism created by social regulatory barriers.

Reviews
"The book makes a superb contribution to an often fractious and difficult debate, and it deserves to be widely read." Alan Matthews, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Volume 30.

Main Contents
Contents include:
PART I: THE ISSUES
CHAPTER 1: Social Regulatory Barriers
• Regulations: Instability and Market Access Barriers
• International Integration
• Social Regulatory Barriers: A Case Study
CHAPTER 2: Agricultural Biotechnology
• Modern Biotechnology and Agricultural Crops
• Agricultural Biotechnology: An Overview of Consumer Acceptance
• Conclusions
PART II: REGULATORY DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION
CHAPTER 3: Economic Interests
• Regulatory Development
• Regulatory Integration: The Traditional Trade Approach
• Conclusions
CHAPTER 4: Social Interests
• Regulatory Development and Integration
• Social Regulatory Integration: Case Study of the Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety
• Conclusions
CHAPTER 5: Regulatory Development and Integration
• Regulating Technology: The Risk Analysis Framework
• Principles of GM Crop Regulations
• Regulatory Integration
• Conclusions
PART III: TRANSATLANTIC REGULATORY REGIONALISM
CHAPTER 6: North American Regulatory Approach
• Introduction
• Agricultural Biotechnology in the USA
• Agricultural Biotechnology in Canada
• North American Regulatory Integration
• Conclusions
CHAPTER 7: European Regulatory Approach
• Introduction
• Agricultural Biotechnology in the European Union
• Agricultural Biotechnology in the United Kingdom
• EU - Member State Regulatory Integration
• Conclusions
PART IV: ANALYSIS
CHAPTER 8: Transatlantic Regulatory Integration
• Trade Diplomacy at a Crossroads
• Ideal Regulatory Framework
• Conclusions and Implications