Work in progress: proceed with caution : primary producer access to gene technology / House of Representatives, Standing Committee on Primary Industries and Regional Services
- Bib ID:
- 663676
- Format:
- Book
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- Description:
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- Canberra : The Committee, 2000
- xxii, 187 pages ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0642438080
- Series:
- Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament) ; 2000, no. 120.
- Summary:
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The Committee terms of reference are: the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Primary Industries and Regional Services will inquire into and report on the following areas, with particular emphasis on the capacity of small and medium sized enterprises to access the benefits of gene technology: - the future value and importance of genetically modified varieties; - the ability for producers to compete using traditionally availabe varieties; - the commercialisation and marketing of agricultural and livestock production varieties; - the cost to producers of new varities; - other impediments to the utilisation of new varieties by small producers; - assistance to small producers to develop new varieties and the protection of the rights of independent breeders, in relation to genetically modified organisms; - the appropriateness of current variety protection rights, administrative arrangements and legislation, in relation to genetically modified organisms; and - opportunities to educate the community of the benefits of gene technology.mmunity
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- Biotechnology in agricultural development
- The committee's inquiry
- The structure of the report
- 2. Benefits and risks of gene technology in agriculture
- Benefits
- Risks and disadvantages
- Ethical concerns
- 3. Understanding genetically modified organisms
- The role of education
- Provision of information
- Education strategies
- 4. The competitiveness of traditional crops
- Negative view
- Positive views
- GM free farming
- 5. Research, development and commercialisation
- Research and development in agricultural gene technology
- Commercialisation
- Marketing
- Skills
- Cost of GM varieties
- Issues for small producers
- 6. Intellectual property
- Patents
- Plant breeders' rights
- International arrangements
- Alternative means of protecting intellectual property
- Managing intellectual protperty
- 7. Regulation
- Regulating GMOs
- Regulating agricultural GMOs
- Regulating GM food safety
- Regulating the international movement of GMOs
- Risk assessment and management
- Liability and insurance. !the bene
- Notes:
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- At head of title: The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.
- Committee chair: Fran Bailey, MP.
- Includes Erratum p. 169.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Also available on the Internet at: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/primind/gtinq/report/contents.htm
- Also published as Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament) ; 2000, no. 120.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1607681771
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- Primary producer access to gene technology
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- Commonwealth of Australia 2000.
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