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The Center for the Study of Global Change and the Indiana University School of Law are pleased to announce the "Sustainable Development, Agriculture, and the Challenge of Genetically Modified Organisms" Conference in Bloomington, Indiana on March 30-31, 2001. This conference will give substance to the otherwise elusive conept of sustainable development by asking what encouragement and what limitations sustainability places on the practices and institutions for the production and development of food for the world's people, focusing primarily on the use and ownership of genetically modified organisms and their impacts on local and indigenous economies.
Program Schedule
March 30, 2001
Keynote Speaker: Mark Sagoff, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland
Panel One: "Sustainability, Agriculture, and GMO's":
The first panel will introduce the issues by exploring, primarily through the lens of GMO's, the relationships among sustainable development, globalization, and the new agriculture.
- Richard Wagner, Department of Biology, Indiana University
- A. Dan Tarlock, Chicago-Kent School of Law, Illinois Illinois Institute of Technology
- William Muir, Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University
- David Pimental, Department of Entomology, Cornell University
- Ellen Messer, Woodrow Wilson International Center
Panel Two: "The Promise and Peril of Intellectual Property in GMO's":
The ownership of GMO technology will have profound effects on the availability of GMO's in developing countries and on the distribution of wealth between North and South. Availability and wealth distribution are intimately connected to the sustainability of agricultural systems. This panel will address the interrelationships among intellectual property, GMO's, and sustainability.
- Marshall Leaffer, Indiana University School of Law
- Mark D. Janis, College of Law, University of Iowa
- Yvonne Cripps, Indiana University School of Law
- Stephen Brush, Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis
- Ikechi Mgbeoji, Dalhousie Law School, Dalhousie University
March 31, 2001
Panel Three: "Legal Regimes for Advancing and Controlling GMO's":
The use of GMO's in agriculture can be both encouraged and constrained by other, non-property international legal regimes. The third panel will examine the nature of that encouragement and constraint, and their relationship to the overarching principle of sustainable development.
- A. James Barnes, Indiana University School of Law and School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Stephen Tromans, Nottingham School of Law
- John S. Applegate, Indiana University School of Law
- Lakshman Guruswamy, School of Law, University of Colorado
Roundtable Discussion
- Fred Aman, Indiana University School of Law
- John S. Applegate, Indiana University School of Law
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