Published 1998
“…The comments sought to define the agribusiness industry's interests in CGIAR policies on biotechnology, and to provide the CGIAR with private sector feedback in its development of new legal and policy frameworks to accommodate the increasingly proprietary nature of agricultural biotechnology.PSC comments on the Biotechnology Panel's report stressed the CGIAR's advocacy role on behalf of poor farmers in the international debate on biotechnology and
bioethics; the need for the CGIAR to develop its capacity for biotechnology
research quickly; and the potential of CGIAR training to bring biotechnology to the adaptive
research of NARS. …”
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