" The findings of this book are a valuable contribution to the state of our knowledge about modern biotechnology, to UNU-IAS efforts to raise awareness among policy makers and stakeholders and to educating the public at large about the greater implications and prospects concerning the advances of this rapidly growing new technology." -- From the Foreword by A. H. Zakri, Director of the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies

The independent Panel of Eminent Experts on Ethics in Food and Agriculture was established by the Director-General of FAO to advise the Organization and raise public awareness of ethical considerations associated with such vital issues as food security for present and future generations and sustainable management of the earth's limited resources. In this second report, the Panel addresses six main themes: ethical aspects of the global emergency of hunger; ethical limits and challenges in the intensification of agriculture; ethics and economic globalisation; sharing the benefits of biotechnological advances; TRIPS (Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights), UPOV (International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants) and farmers' rights; Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and ethics in decision making.

Health economists should consider the advantages of viewing a country's health system not only as a unique industry that produces both health care and high-technology goods and services, but that it also possess the ability to stimulate development of a broader array of high-technology industries. Development and industrial economists and policymakers will also see the health sector from this different and innovative perspective.

Neurological rights or neuro-rights are atypical rights. Their legal framework is experiencing increasing development internationally and in national laws. These rights are a primordial necessity in order to channel the development of neurotechnologies. They are instruments serving not only the international community, States, individuals; but also, a guarantee of respect and protection of the brain; neurons, and mental integrity. Beyond legal regulation, they are the projection on international and national scales of scientific research which reconciles ethics, precaution and innovation. By presenting the different aspects of the legal framework of neurological rights, Sabine Ndzengue Amoa shows that they are not perfect and sheds light on their most current evolution in the light of the development of neurotechnological research.