Workshop on “Globalization and International Governance of 
Modern Biotechnology”
February 8, 2002


This Workshop was organized as part of the research project on Globalization and International Governance of Modern Biotechnology being undertaken by RIS. The Workshop deliberated on issues like potential of biotechnology to provide lasting solutions to many of the difficult problems that countries across the development spectrum encounter at present; risks associated with large scale use of biotechnology particularly in agriculture sector; ability of intellectual property regimes in different countries to provide effective protection to biotechnological inventions; etc.