The Protection of Maize Under the Mexican Biosafety Law [Recurso electrónico] : Environment and Trade / Alicia Gutierrez González.

Originally published as thesis (doctoral)--Department for International Economic and Environmental Law of the Institute for International and European Law at the Faculty of Law at Georg-August University of Göttingen, 2009.

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

First published in 2010 in Germany by Universitätsverlag Göttingen.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-205) and index.

Biotechnology and biodiversity : developments, potentials, and concerns -- Mexican and international biosafety rules regarding genetically modified organisms -- The Mexican biosafety law and the NAFTA, WTO regimes regarding imports of GM maize.

Libro Electrónico

This book analyzes the importance of maize worldwide and the special importance for Mexico as a center of origin and diversity (COD). By adopting a comparative approach, the analysis focuses on how developed and developing countries handle imports of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). The book also analyzes the impact that GM maize imports from the USA might have in Mexico as a COD of maize. This book illustrates the process of economic liberalization in Mexico from the 1980s until the inception of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, and provides a descriptive and analytical insight into the Mexican legal framework of biotechnology and biosafety, including complying with both international environmental and trade commitments.

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