Genetically Modified DiplomacyWhen genetically engineered seeds were first deployed in theAmericas in the mid 1990s, the biotechnology industry and its partnersenvisaged a world in which their crops would be widely accepted as thefood of the future. Critics, however, raised a variety of social,environmental, economic, and health concerns. This book traces theemergence of the 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety andthe discourse of precaution toward GEOs that the