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Biotechnologies in the agro-food sector: A limited impact

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  • Roberto Fanfani
  • Raúl Green
  • Manuel Zuñiga

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Within the framework of a general reflection on technical change, this paper is aimed at opposing an approach that assigns a primary role to the progress of biological knowledge in the evolution of the agro-food system. Instead, the importance of the complex and heterogeneous nature of the transformation under way is highlighted. Biotechnological research risks falling into a reductionist rut when it ignores the structural and organizational changes in the agro-food industry and the contribution of other technical innovations, especially in the field of computers and in product innovation. If one really wants to speak of a biotechnology revolution, one must specify that it is essentially a scientific revolution: at the production level the contribution of the biotechnologies is still potential, while the agro-food sector is going through a period of profound change. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1993

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  • Roberto Fanfani & Raúl Green & Manuel Zuñiga, 1993. "Biotechnologies in the agro-food sector: A limited impact," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 10(2), pages 68-74, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:10:y:1993:i:2:p:68-74
    DOI: 10.1007/BF02217606
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