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Seed prospects at the INRA. Consequences and questions for a public research institute |
Oléagineux, Corps Gras, Lipides. Volume 6, Number 2, 165-8, Mars - Avril 1999, Dossier : Génomique et sélection: aspetcs et perspectives
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Author(s) : Michel SEBILLOTTE, Hélène LECOEUR |
Summary : At the end of 1996, the Delegation for Agriculture, Development and Prospective (DADP) has drawn up a report on one of its first prospective works concerning the future of the seed sector and its consequences within the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). This induced a double work : a prospective analysis on the socio-economic context of INRA of which the main actors are the seed producers besides the agriculture development ones, and a prospective analysis in particular on the research areas and biotechnologies. This work leads to a double statement : the emergence of a very high level private research for some seed producers and in firms specifically created to exploit biotechnologies and genetics position, discipline which seems to intrude on others and to be in the focal point of our whole present vision of agricultural development. Public research is not anymore the only one which provides basis acquaintance, INRA partnership relations with the seed sector, in a wide meaning, are then the focus of its tactical choices. The Institute must redetermine the application of its missions, several choices are possible depending on its possible futures visions, partially described in the report as microscenarios : to prepare future and work further on general interest studies ; to work on subjects considered essential, to shorter term, for economic or social reasons, to commit public research to a support part for some types of firms ; to support the agricultures development concerning others exigences of agricultural politics. |
Keywords : INRA, agricultural development, seed sector, biotechnologies, genetics. |
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