Biotechnology, Agriculture and the Developing World: The Distributional Implications of Technological Change

How will the industrial changes implicit within new biotechnologies affect modern agriculture? This book investigates these changes and provides an economic analysis of the industrial and distributional impacts of new biotechnologies, addressing in detail the significant consequences for developing countries.

One of the most important facets of biotechnological change is the development of new technologies for appropriating the value of innovations in related industries. In agriculture these...