Since the late 1990s there has been a great increase in the web of stakeholders participating in the public controversy on agricultural biotechnology, for example, about genetically-modified (GM) crops. Agricultural supply companies initially played a central role in the policy process at...

[eng] The understanding of the technological evolution of the pesticide industry relies upon an examination of technical change potentialities and constraints and integration of the economic reality of agriculture. On one side, chemists have to defend their specificities and market shares....

[eng] The Brazilian and Thai cases . In Brasil and Thailand, agricultural priorities toward agro-export and agro-energy induced a very important increase of pesticides consumtion and the settlement of local productive capacities of formulation and synthesis from most international firms of the...

[fre] bAux Etats-Unis, la bio-énergie s'inscrit dans la dynamique de croissance des biotechnologies et de la bio-industrie. Au Brésil, seule l'intervention massive de l'Etat au sein du complexe agro-énergétique permet d'assurer le développement immédiat de la bio-énergie. Mais la...