Highlights the regulatory and trade challenges to improving food security and offers strategic responses to these challenges

Section I: The Changing Dynamics of Institutional Architecture.- 1. International Governance in the 21stCentury.- 2. Governance Challenges from Transformative Technologies.- 3. Barriers to Trade and Investment Impacts.- 4. Managing Trade in Products of Biotechnology.- 5. International Treaty Precedence.- Section II: Present Pulse of the International Market.- 6. Benefits of Genetically Modified Crops.- 7. The Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops in Canada.- 8. Canadian Canola: A Case Study in Profitable Genetic Innovation.- 9. Coexistence and International Commodity Trade.- 10. Global Trade Impacts from Low Level Presence.- 11. The World Trade Organization and Low Level Presence.- 12. Food Security and the Evaluation of Risk.- 13. Innovation and Utility: The Challenges of Winners and Losers.- Section III: Breaking the Gridlock.- 14. Accelerating Genetically Modified Crop.- 15. Governance Constraints on Improving Food Security.- 16. The Cost of Socio-Economic Biosafety Assessments.- 17. Institutions, Trade and Food Security.- 18. The Future of Food Security.