This publication describes the state of biotechnology in the developing regions
of the world, namely Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the
Caribbean and the Near East and North Africa. Regional and selected country
analyses review problems and prospects of food and agricultural production and
sustainability issues and then examine the actual and potential role of
biotechnologies as complements to conventional technologies. Policies,
programmes and institutional and infrastructural supports to biotechnology are
discussed in detail. Comparison of the different approaches to management of
biotechnology taken by the different regions and countries, including some
developed countries such as Australia and Japan, provides a basis for learning
from each