Adjusting to a demand oriented food system: New directions for biotechnology innovation

This article analyses the results of a series of interviews conducted among leading firms in agrofood designed to assess the strategic importance of biotechnologies. Earlier analyses have emphasized either the revolutionary character of these technologies or the ability of oligopoly structure to contain the potential within existing market patterns. Our interviews would suggest that biotechnologies must be situated within the shift to a demand oriented food system. This has led on the on hand to a preoccupation with quality rather than cost-cutting applications. It has also highlighted the inter-connectedness of the different phases of the agrofood system, since the incentive and the capacity to introduce innovations at any one point in the system depends on their acceptability to other actors in the agrofood chain. Biotechnologies have now become integrated into the competitive strategies of the leading actors but they remain ambiguously placed within the emerging “biotechnology” paradigm. The peculiarities of the agrofood system and the limitations of its industrialization have opened the way to strong consumer pressure based on the demand for quality and “natural” food and agriculture. It remains to be seen whether advanced biotechnologies can be assimilated within these priorities     

农业生物技术内涵与转基因农业生物技术效应

技术进步是农业发展的不竭动力.根据技术形成的要素、结构和形态变化,农业生物技术可分为传统农业生物技术(遗传育种技术)和现代农业生物技术(转基因农业生物技术)两类.农业生物技术进步的不同原因在不同的政策作用机制下,引起的结果完全不同.而转基因农业生物技术可能引起各种经济、社会效应尤其值得审慎思考和认真对待.     

植物生物技术在农业中的应用

生物技术是21世纪的关键技术,在农业领域有广泛的用途如转基因技术、分子标记、组织培养等可以提高育种效率、改善营养品质,生物技术的发展为农业的高产和高效提供了有力的技术保障。     

微藻生物技术 助力功能农业

微藻是一类重要的光合微生物,固碳能力强,生长速率快和生活周期短,在全球能量转化和碳循环起着极为重要的作用。微藻资源和微藻生物技术已广泛用于食品加工业、水产养殖业、医药与美容业、废水处理环保业、生物能源业、生物化工和生物制造业等领域。本文围绕"微藻生物技术助力功能农业"这一主题,重点论述微藻生物技术、微藻资源综合开发和微藻产业的发展,及其在解决全球能源保障、环境保护、粮食安全和人类健康等方面的应用。同时,提出和讨论微藻生物技术产业化推动我国农业供给侧改革和功能农业发展的具体路径。