- Course Details
- Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad FPM 2002-2003
- ISPE Course
- MTSA Course
- Other Readings
- Session Outline
- Session 1 & 2 THE CRISIS OF MODERN AGRICULTURE
- Session 3 & 4 SOCIAL PRESSURES FOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES
- Session 5 & 6 CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
- Session 7. MODELS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
- Session 8. TECHNOLOGICAL APPRAISAL FROM THE INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE:
- Session 9.PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS FOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
- Session 10.FROM PROBLEM SOLVING TO SOLUTION AUGMENTING STRATEGIES:
- Session 11. TRANSITION TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE:
- Session 12. CASE OF LIVESTOCK FEED, BREED AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT
- Session 13. CASE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION IN DRY REGIONS AND HILLS
- Session 14. INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT FOR LOW EXTERNAL INPUT AGRICULTURE
- Session 15. ECOPRENEURS: AGENTS OF CHANGE - FOUR CASE STUDIES
- Session 16. & 17 POLICY AND ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR LINKING FORMAL AND INFORMAL SCIENCE
- Session 18 & 19. RISK AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
- Session 20. ETHICAL ISSUES IN TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE:
- Session 21 & 22: INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY
- Session Wise Reading
Session 18 & 19. RISK AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
a) Biosafety protocol
b) Risk analysis and management
c) Precautionary principle
Essential Readings:1) Parish, Mickey, 1999, Science
Behind the Regulation of Food Safety: Risk Assessment
and the Precautionary Principle, Washington: National Council for Science and Environment, CRS
www.cnie.org/nle/crsreports/risk/rsk-29.cfm
2) Segarra, E.Alejandro, 2000, Biosafety Protocol for www.cnie.org/nle/crsreports/risk/rsk-29.cfm
Genetically Modified Organisms: Overview, Washington DC,
The National Council for Science and the Environment, CRS, www.ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/ 3) Gupta , A. K. 2000. Precaution and the survival
threshold : Oscillatons between the Plimsoll lines.
threshold : Oscillatons between the Plimsoll lines.
Key note paper presented at the conference on Biotechnology in the Global Economy: Science and the Precautionary Principle, Harvard University, Boston, 22-23 September 2000
Essential Readings:
4) Mugo, S. and Hoisington, D. 2001. Biotechnology for
the improvement of maize for resource poor farmers:
5) Persley, G. J. Agricultural Biotechnology: Global the improvement of maize for resource poor farmers:
The CIMMYT Approach. Second National Maize Workshop of Ethopia, 12-16 November, 2001.
www.cimmyt.org/worldwide/CIMMYT_Regions/CIMMYT_Africa/ procee_Ethiopia/31Biotechnology.pdf
www.cimmyt.org/worldwide/CIMMYT_Regions/CIMMYT_Africa/ procee_Ethiopia/31Biotechnology.pdf
Challenges and Emerging Science.
www.cabi-publishing.org/Bookshop/ReadingRoom/
0851998164/0851998164Ch1.pdf
6) The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the
Convention on Biological Diversity, 17th July, 2001.
www1.oecd.org/bangkok/presjohnstone.doc
Convention on Biological Diversity, 17th July, 2001.
www1.oecd.org/bangkok/presjohnstone.doc