Netzwerke nachhaltiger Landwirtschaft im GVO-induzierten institutionellen Wandel

Summary

In many countries of the world regional actors and their networks seem to be concerned
about genetically engineered plants, food, feed and seed. Especially regional
actors involved in organic and natural food and farming business seem to lead the
way in wanting to know more about the source of their food, what it contains and how
it is produced. Sustainable producing Farmers want to protect their plants and produce
from the influence of pollen drift from GM plants. Thus the Introduction of GM plants
requires complex innovations in regularizing ecological, social and economic relationships
and it induces various institutional changes even on local level. This paper
gives an inside over institutional changes which occurred in selected study regions of
North America and Germany with respect to the introduction of GM plants.