This session will explore the increasingly important role that developing and transitioning economies are playing in the acceptance and adoption of agricultural products from biotechnology. While some have a zero tolerance for transgenic events, others have embraced the technology, some are importers only and others are major exporters.



Objectives:

Explore how the attitudes of developing and transitioning economies toward biotechnology affect international agreements such as the World Trade Organization, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Codex Alimentarius.

Discuss why some developing and transitioning economies have zero tolerance for transgenic events while others have embraced the technology.

Discuss what the drivers are for some developing and transitioning economies to be only importers while others are major exporters.