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| Title: | NATIONAL SECURITY AND BIOTERRORISM: A U.S. PERSPECTIVE |
| Authors: | Runge, C. Ford |
| Issue Date: | 2002 |
| Series/Report no.: | Working Paper WP02-7; Paper Presented at the 8th Joint Conference on Food, Agriculture and the Environment, August 25-28, 2002, Red Cedar Lake, Wisconsin |
| Abstract: | My purpose is to consider how the events of September 11, 2001 have changed how we think about the world food system and the possibilities for agro-bioterrorism. I will divide them into three categories: direct threats to the world food system from agro-bioterrorism; market and development assistance disruptions arising from terrorist and anti-terrorist activity; and broader and longer term shifts in the political economy of international agriculture due to the emergence of a recognized global terrorist threat. I conclude that agro-bioterrorism is a real threat, but more to markets than to human health. Moreover, responses to this threat are likely to reinforce ongoing improvements in food inspection, identity preservation, and safety measures. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/14384 |
| Institution/Association: | University of Minnesota>Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy>Working Papers |
| Total Pages: | 12 |
| Language: | English |
| Collections: | Working Papers
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