Biotechnology Revolution and the Third World: Challenges and Policy Options 1988

Even though a large volume of literature on prospects and promises of biorevolution has emerged in the West, it has been often felt that a wider awareness of its implications for developing countries and the policy options open for the Third World policy makers was lacking. It was with the aim to fill this lacuna that RIS initiated a study on the subject in late 1987. The study was aimed at examining the developmental potential and other implications of biotechnologies for developing countries including areas of North-South conflict, with a view to formulating an inventory of policy options. In view of the wide ranging and often technical nature of the scope of the study, a number of noted experts in different parts of the world provided their views in the above volume.