Socio-economic impacts, social inclusion, and science-policy interphase: The case of rice biotechnology in the Philippines

• Main Author: Contreras, Antonio P.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2012
• Subjects: Transgenic plants—Social aspects > Philippines; Technology—Social aspects > Philippines; Science—Social aspects > Philippines; Technology and state > Philippines; Science and state > Philippines; Political Science
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/546
• Institution: De La Salle University

The paper argues that the development of biotechnology policies in the Philippines vis-à-vis rice is enabled by structures and processes that are friendly to the furtherance of social inclusion and equity goals. This occurs in the context of attaining rice self-sufficiency amidst a globalized system...