Plenary paper 2: Assessing the future importance of industrial markets for agricultural products
评估新技术特别是生物技术推动下，农产品在化工和能源等非食品用途中的未来重要性，分析技术、经济和政治约束，指出环境关切可能成为扩大使用的催化剂。
This paper assesses the future importance of nonfood uses of agricultural raw materials made possible by new technologies and biotechnology in particular. The two main outlets are for carbohydrate use in the chemical and energy sector, but other opportunities also exist for oils, fats and fibres. The paper examines the technical, economic and political constraints on more widespread use of these raw materials and concludes that together with the underlying economic and political constraints on more widespread use of these raw materials and concludes that together with the underlying, economic trend of the relative cheapening of agricultural raw materials, concern about the environment may well prove the catalyst for wider usage.