Biodiversity, biotechnology, and sustainable development in health and agriculture: emerging connections

This publication, "Emerging Connections" for short, explores the scientific and technological alternatives; economic prospects; and environmental, legal, political, sociocultural, and institutional consequences and implications for countries at different stages of scientific and economic development, with different capabilities, and different natural resource endowments. Finally, it discusses whether Latin America's biodiversity will, in fact, become the region's new competitive advantage (Introd)