ABSTRACT
Agricultural production and distribution processes must continue to be improved if we are to feed our global population in a sustainable manner. Advocates have argued that biotechnology will lead the next revolution in agricultural production, and substantial economic re sources are being used to bring this vision about. Indeed, the biotechnol ogy industry has used the issue of world hunger as a cornerstone of its public relations campaign. What is lost in all of this enthusiasm is an analysis of the cultural and ecological contexts into which these bio technological innovations could fit. This problem is extremely com plex, so here we focus specifically on the potential ecological effects of biotechnology on crop production.
