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34 Cumb. L. Rev. 415 (2003-2004)
Andhra Pradesh, India, as a Case Study in Perspectives on GMO's

handle is hein.journals/cumlr34 and id is 423 raw text is: BIOETHICS SYMPOSIUM ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, AS A CASE STUDY IN PERSPECTIVES ON GMO'S' ELIZABETH BOWLES2 I. INTRODUCTION Agriculture has been the object of global revolutions since it first dawned on humankind. Roughly ten thousand years ago, agriculture revolutionized civilization for all time when it appeared-in explica- bly-across the earth nearly simultaneously in places as far flung as the Far East, the Middle East, and South America. More recently, the Green Revolution spread modem agriculture throughout the world: an agriculture of chemical inputs, machinery, technology, research and development networks, and investment and involvement by gov- ernmental institutions and agencies. The Green Revolution was the product of many forces, not the least of which was a concern that ag- riculture as it had existed was unable to feed a burgeoning world population, particularly in developing nations.3 Increased yields were the qoal, along with the political stability that accompanies food secu- rity. The Green Revolution has now performed much transformative work, but the world faces yet another global agricultural revolution: biotechnology is changing the essence of food production across the world. To say that this latest revolution is controversial would be I This article was originally presented at the March 31, 2004 symposium on National and Global Implications of Genetically Modified Organisms: Law, Ethics, and Science. The symposium was presented by the Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics, of Cumber- land School of Law, Samford University; the Center for Ethics and Values in the Sci- ences, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham; and the Cumberland Law Review. 2 J.D., 2004, magna cum laude, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University; Bache- lor of Science in Agriculture, Environmental Soil Science, magna cum laude, 2000, Uni- versity of Georgia. Beginning in August of 2004 Elizabeth Bowles will serve as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Karon 0. Bowdre of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The author thanks Professor David Smolin for guidance and direction in preparing this address, and for serving as an invaluable resource on An- dhra Pradesh, India. 3 For a discussion of some of the forces shaping the Green Revolution with particular fo- cus on India, see generally SHALIA SESHIA & IAN SCOONES, TRACING POLICY CONNECTIONS: THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE GREEN REVOLUTION AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ERAS IN INDIA (Inst. of Development Studies, Working Paper No. 188, 2003), http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/wp/wp 188.pdf. 4 See id. at 2-5.

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