and Environmental Impacts -- Pest Resistance in Agriculture: An Economic Perspective -- Biotechnology for Planted Forests …Surveying the Issues: Technologies, Biology and Economics -- Biosafety in Agricultural Biotechnology: Balancing Social …The advent of new biotechnologies implies significant changes in the world, both biologically and industrially …

the subject of increased attention worldwide. Particularly relevant to the field of biotechnology, this book presents the … Biotechnology Inventions (Intellectual Property Rights - IPR) -- 2 Intellectual Property Rights of Plant Varieties and of … Biotechnology in the European Union -- 3 Intellectual Property Rights under the Convention on Biological Diversity -- 4 An Economic …

1. Introduction -- 2. Structure of agriculture -- 3. The Food industry -- 4. Food value chains -- 5. The position of … agriculture -- 6. Agricultural and trade policy -- 7. Markets -- 8. Consumers and consumption -- 9. Resources -- 10 Food supply … and defines over 80 contemporary ‘megatrends’ in agriculture and the food market that can be empirically documented and …