Opportunities for and challenges to plant biotechnology adoption in developing countries
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Profit incentives and the private sector generate and deliver useful products and, reasonable regulation of new technologies and education of farmers in their application can enhance and prolong their usefulness. But, in today’s global market, property rights, regulations, and liability concerns seem to have gone too far and made access by the poor to new agricultural technologies too difficult. Getting good farm technology to over two billion poor, small-scale farmers in developing countries in a way that is responsible and sustainable is likely to remain a public-sector responsibility. It will require that governments, public research institutions, non-governmental organizations, and corporations devise new ways of doing business and of forming partnerships that accommodate the interests of the majority of the world’s people located in developing countries, as well as the concerns of the technology providers, users who can pay, and consumers in wealthy countries