Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of Genetically Modified Crops

Prof Sachin Chaturvedi is Director General at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a New Delhi-based think tank. He was a Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International Affairs at Yale University. His work currently focuses on issues related to development economics, development finance, SDGs, and South–South Cooperation. He has also worked on trade, investment, and innovation linkages with a special focus on the WTO. He has authored/edited 10 books, contributed chapters in various edited volumes and published several research articles in a number of prestigious journals. He has served as a Visiting Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), a Developing Country Fellow at the University of Amsterdam (1996), a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla (2003), and a Visiting Scholar at the German Development Institute (2007). He is a Member of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Central Board of Directors. He hasbeen writing on biotechnology and development issues since the early 1990s and has led research projects on biotechnology and development issues, e.g. for UNESCO, FAO, Department of Biotechnology, and the MOEF&CC. Krishna Ravi Srinivas holds a Ph.D. from the National Law School University of India, Bangalore. He has been a Fulbright Fellow (Visiting Scholar) at the University of Pennsylvania, a Visiting Scholar at the Law School, Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the South Centre, Geneva. He has taught at the IIM-B as a Visiting Faculty. For his Ph.D., he conducted research on agricultural biodiversity and intellectual property rights. He has published extensively on intellectual property rights, traditional knowledge, open source, open innovation, commons and climate change, IPRs, and technology transfer. He is currently a Consultant to the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, and is pursuing research on technology governance, intellectual property rights, science diplomacy, and responsible research and innovation. He has been a consultant to UNESCO, UNEP, the Anthropological Survey of India, UNDESA, and FAO. He is Managing Editor of the journal Asian Biotechnology and Development Review (ABDR).

Section I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. Cartagena Protocol, Socio-Economic Assessment and Literature Review of Socuio-Economic Assessment (SEA) Studies in India.- Chapter 2. International Experience in Socio-Economic Assessment.- Chapter 3. Cost-Benefit Analysis. Chapter 4. Sociological Aspects.- Section II: Case Studies.- Chapter 5. Socioeconomic Assessment of LMOs: Insights from Punjab and Haryana.- Chapter 6. Socioeconomic Assessment of LMOs: A case of Insect Resistance and Herbicide Tolerance in Maize and Brinjal in Tamil Nadu.- Chapter 7. Socio Economic Assessment of Potential LMO Adopters in Gujarat.- Chapter 8. Socio-Economic Assessment of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs).- Chapter 9. Adoption and impact of brinjal and maize LMOs in Telangana.- Chapter 10. Socio-Economic Assessment of Aerobic Rice and Bt Cotton in Karnataka.- Section III: Conclusion.- Chapter 11. Framework for Socio-Economic Assessment.- Chapter 12. Guidelines for Socio-Economic Assessment.- Chapter 13. A Way Forward: New Trends in Technology and Relevance of Socio-Economic Assessment.