Developing Country Biotechnology Profiles
FAO member countries recognise that biotechnology, when coupled with other technologies, offers considerable potential and opportunity for new solutions to some of the old problems hindering sustainable rural development and achievement of food security, but note that it is an area where there is a growing gap between developing and developed countries. There is a need to promote information exchange in the areas of biotechnology policy and regulation as well as on the extent of biotechnology research, development and application between member countries. Such information is readily available from developed countries but scarce and dispersed for most developing countries, hence the decision to compile these country biotechnology profiles. The objective of the profiles is to provide a platform on which developing country biotechnology-related policies, regulations and activities can be readily accessed, directing the user to key, updated sources of information. |