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Science, Policy and Biotechnology Regulation

Published on 1 January 2003

If biotechnology regulatory policies are to gain broad-based support – and so be implementable – a rethinking of the ways risk and uncertainty are handled is needed.

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Ian Scoones

Professorial Fellow

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IDS
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Scoones, I.
journal
Democratising Biotechnology: Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries Briefing Series

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