ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses the work conducted within the project entitled "A new approach to governing GM crops: global lessons from the rising powers is 'new' in one key respect". The extent to which the seed companies, farmers, food manufacturers and retailers or consumers can influence the decisions is determined by the political influence either through the ballot box or through mass media. The support for GM has become emblematic of a route that emphasises government-aided, commercial investment in protected intellectual property with applications in the large, profitable, global markets represented by major traded commodities that are destined to annihilate small local producers and markets. The agricultural revolution fully ran its course during the first half of the twentieth century. The report summarizes that glorification of the rural idyll and demonisation of global trade is not the route by which the food security of families, societies or nations will be forthcoming.
