Agricultural biotechnology and regulatory innovation in India

摘要: This article uses comparative analyses of both US and EU regulations to understand the evolution Indian policies aimed at regulating genetically engineered agriculture (primarily cotton). India initially borrowed extensively from OECD regulations, predictably emphasizing human health environmental impacts. Over time, however, India's biosafety have evolved reflect twin imperatives development democracy. expanded address economic security farmers later, a lesser extent, increase citizen participation consultation. Much this reconstitution has been realized through public interest litigation critical agri-biotech regulation brought about by urban civil society groups, legal tool that may no longer be applied under proposed National Biotechnology Regulatory Authority. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.