Beyond the Past: Three Scenarios for the Future of Dutch Agribusiness 1990–2015

The costly benefits of opposing agricultural biotechnology

“…This ensures that kombinates based in the Netherlands have some of the world's most significant interests in the regulation, testing, segregation and labeling of commodities and foods. At the same time, this helps to ensure political and economic support for Dutch agriculture, which is not well-equipped to compete with streamlined, lowcost, high-volume producers of agricultural products [45]. Such producers are invariably producers of modified crops.…”