Agricultural Biodiversity and Biotechnology in Economic Development

by Joseph S. Cooper, Leslie Lipper, David Zilberman

This volume summarizes the current state of knowledge in the economic literature of management of agricultural biotechnology and biodiversity in agricultural and economic development. It identifies key issues confronting policy makers in managing biodiversity and biotechnology and provides a broad, multi-disciplinary analysis of the linkage between the two. It is especially innovative in its use of plant genetic resource management as the basis for is analysis.

510 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Joseph Cooper is the author of several books of poetry, Autobiography of a Stutterer, Touch Me, Arias Let Into, and Porlock. His first novel, Talk Like Jazz was published by Weasel Press in March 2019.