Future impacts of biotechnology in the Agro-Food sector

In this chapter the results of an in-depth analysis of selected key issues are presented. These key issues relate to the scientific and technical development of Agro-Food biotechnology as well as its future impacts on society, the economy, the environment and the health of consumers, users and employees. In order to facilitate the comparison between the results of these analyses and the results of the survey in the single countries, this chapter is structured according to the sequence of the domains in the questionnaire. Firstly, the future acceptance of modern biotechnology (5.1) as well as regulatory issues (5.2) are analysed. Afterwards, the impacts of Agro-Food biotechnology on the economy (5.3), the environment (5.4) and the health of consumers, users and employees (5.5) are discussed. This chapter concludes with a presentation of future scientific and technical trends in four selected areas of Agro-Food biotechnology and the most important prerequisites for these developments (5.6).