A Pesquisa Pública e a Indústria Sementeira nos Segmentos de Semente de Soja e Milho Híbrido no Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Fuck, Marcos Paulo
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Bonacelli, Maria Beatriz
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Inovação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rbi/article/view/8648942
• topic: Agricultural Research Organization; Strategic Intervention; Public- Private Relationships; Cultivation Protection Laws; Biotechnology; O32; O33; O34; Q13; Q58; Organização da pesquisa agrícola. Intervenção estratégica. Relações público-privado. Lei de proteção de cultivares. Biotecnologia.; O32; O33; O34; Q13; Q58

The organization of agricultural research has gone through several changes in the past few years. At present, the Public Institutions for Agricultural Research (IPPAs) are losing the position once occupied during the Green Revolution. Nowadays, in various countries of the world, the multinational firms have been doing most of the research in agricultural biotechnology and, consequently, they have expanded their participation in the seed market of important agricultural cultures. It is believed that unless the local research institutions are not strengthened, developing countries may possibly come to be merely passive receptors of technologies developed by those companies. Therefore, they should take advantage of the opportunities to be explored in the biotechnology area and, in that way, be in a position to compete with the multinational firms. In Brazil's case, the way the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) participates is a good example of how an IPPA can be competitive in this new era of agricultural research.