00751nam a2200109Ia 4500080001800000245011000018260002900128300003000157500000700187520042800194583001900622  a15.01.03 P187  aBiodiversity, biotechnology, and sustainable development in health and agriculture : emerging connections  bPAHOaWashingtonUSc1996  axvii, 229 p. + 1 diskette  aDC  aFocuses on scientific and technological alternatives; economic prospects; and environmnetal, legal, political, sociocultural, and institutional consequences and implications for countries at different stages of scientific and economic development and that have different potentials and natural resource endowments. Explores whether biodiversity will become, in fact, Latin America and the Caribbean's competitive advantage.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR