Inconvenient truths: Why the industry left the IAASTD

Journal or Publishing Institution: GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

Study: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angelika_Hilbeck/publication/233649558_Inconvenient_truths_Why_the_industry_left_the_IAASTD/links/550c00ef0cf2b2450b4e4973/Inconvenient-truths-Why-the-industry-left-the-IAASTD.pdf

Author(s): Hilbeck, A.

Article Type: Journal Publication

Record ID: 1008

Abstract: The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) was the biggest review ever of global agriculture. It developed different approaches for alleviating hunger and poverty, focussing on the productivity of small household farms and supporting low-tech and cost-free strategies. Not long before the final IAASTD plenary, the chemical-biotech indus try announced that they leave the process in protest mainly over the Synthesis Report on Biotechnology. The following is a personal account of one of the co-authors of that report on what made the industries take this step.

Keywords: biotechnology, food security, gene technology, IAASTD, industrial agriculture, poverty

Citation: Hilbeck, A., 2008. Inconvenient truths: Why the industry left the IAASTD. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 17(4), pp.347-348.