00780nam a2200121Ia 450000500170000008000180001724501100003526000290014530000300017450000070020452004280021158300190063920260716043216.0  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