ICABR’s principal objectives are:

To provide opportunities at the international level to exchange views on issues related to agricultural biotechnology research; by

• Holding conferences, workshops, seminars, and training programs
• Promoting cooperative research
• Favoring exchange of information about on-going research activities, the state of the arts of biotechnology research, and the economics of biotechnology, around the world
• Disseminating information on legislation and the policy-making process relating to the regulation and/or encouragement of agricultural biotechnology

To favor exchanges of views among representatives of the international scientific community, agricultural producers and their organizations, policy-makers, industrialists, international organizations, NGOs, and consumer groups from developing as well as developed countries

To stimulate the analysis of issues related to agricultural biotechnology research, such as

• The relationship between the production of biotechnologies and technological transfers among countries.
• The role of biotechnology transfer in the development process.
• The regulation of biotechnology research and international trade.
• Intellectual property rights and the results of agricultural biotechnology research.

To stimulate awareness and appreciation of the role of agricultural biotechnology research among the general population, in order to decrease fears about the health and environmental implications of new biotechnology and to understand the role of agricultural biotechnology research in the process of economic growth and development

To stimulate the design and creation of national and international institutions to foster and to support agricultural biotechnology research

The promoters of the Consortium include scientists from the following universities and institutions:
Bocconi University of Milan
Cornell University, Ithaca
Iowa State University
North Carolina State University
Serd-INRA, Grenoble
University of California, Berkeley
University of Idaho
University of Naples, Federico II
University of Rome, Tor Vergata
University of Saskatchewan
University of Verona
Rutgers University, NJ
Yale University, New Haven

Contact person:
Vittorio Santaniello
Tor Vergata University, Rome
Italy

Ph: ++39 06 7259 5705

Fax: ++39 06 2020500