Varela, Liliana 
ORCID: 0000-0001-6139-1461 and Bisang, Roberto
(2006)
Biotechnology in Argentine agriculture faces world-wide concentration.
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, 9 (3).
ISSN 0717-3458
Abstract
In the 1980s, the technical pattern of production in agriculture changed due to the increasing design of genetically modified plants. Modern biotechnology thrived on events requiring certain thresholds of scientific and technological skills as well as scale economies usually seen in developed countries. The mergers and acquisitions during the mid-1990s led to a world-wide oligopoly composed of very few agri-biotechnological mega-corporations and the literature discusses the impact of the mergers and acquisitions on the agriculture of developing countries with comparative advantages in agriculture. This paper analyzes the world-wide process of agri-biotechnological mega-corporation mergers and acquisitions as well as its impact and interrelationships with Argentine agriculture using information from primary and secondary sources. Conclusions refer to the set-backs of endogenous agri-biotechnological development due to world-wide concentration in developing countries with comparative advantage in agriculture.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.ejbiotechnology.info/index.php/ejbiotec... |
| Additional Information: | © 2006 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso |
| Divisions: | Finance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2019 18:06 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2024 03:46 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/102069 |
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