27 Nov 2001, 00:00 - 9 Oct 2025, 02:39
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Introduction
There is a renewed call for a new approach to development with emphasis on community empowerment or participation, with the belief that more sustainable activities will be undertaken in those communities. Much of that call, however, is coming not from within the communities, but primarily from advocates of change who may have little to do with those communities. What then will the new approach bring apart from a change in who are the decision-makers?
And how do we ensure that the change that is called for will, in fact, bring added benefits to the communities themselves?
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1 Mar 2001, 00:00 - 9 Oct 2025, 02:25
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Resumen El surgimiento de los organismos genéticamente modificados o productos transgénicos, es decir, los productos agrícolas y alimenticios producidos por técnicas de ingeniería genética, ha planteado un sinnúmero de interrogantes acerca de los posibles efectos de estos productos en la bioseguridad y la biodiversidad agrícolas, además de abrir un amplio debate en torno de los riesgos de su consumo para la salud de los consumidores. Los organismos transgénicos involucran aspectos contradictorios. Por una parte, la manipulación genética de cultivos permite el desarrollo tanto de prod…