出版社：Red Internacional de Estudios sobre Sociedad, Naturaleza y Desarrollo
摘要：Un refrán usual en Etiopía dice que ?cuando se juntan las arañas pueden acabar con un león?; este refrán sintetiza magistralmente lo que se ha dado en llamar la ?Estrategia de Liliput?. La actual lucha en torno a un protocolo internacional de bioseguridad es un buen ejemplo de esto, ya que ha motivado a una diversidad de redes y foros para derribar a la poderosa alianza de la industria de biotecnología y sus respectivos gobiernos. La amenaza perceptible para la biodiversidad del tercer mundo, su seguridad alimentaria y la vida campesina, que se ven todas amenazadas por la introducción de semillas genéticamente modificadas, alimentos procesados, alimento para animales y productos farmacéuticos, ha sido central para la lucha en torno al protocolo de bioseguridad. Este artículo estudia las prácticas comunicativas, sus riesgos, así como la formación de redes de organizaciones de la sociedad civil, tanto en el Tercer Mundo como en los países industrializados. En las conclusiones se examinan los riesgos de un movimiento de los derechos de los consumidores por el derecho de elección, toda vez que sustituye a un más fundamental movimiento de derechos ciudadanos por la libertad frente a las imposiciones corporativas de tecnologías inherentemente riesgosas.
其他摘要：There is an Ethiopian saying, "When spiders get together, they can tie down a lion." I believe this is an apt metaphor for a process of global networking and strategic coordinated activity that Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello in Global Village or Global Pillage have called the "Lilliput strategy." The struggle for an international biosafety protocol is one very significant example. It has involved a complex process of risk communication in a wide spectrum of forums via a diverse set of networks to tie down a powerful global biotech industry alliance and their government sponsors. The Ethiopian metaphor is particularly relevant because Third World delegates and civil society organizations have played the leading role with the head of Ethiopia?s Environmental Protection Authority as their chief spokesperson. The perceived threat to Third world biodiversity, food security, and livelihoods posed by introduction of genetically engineered seeds, crops, processed foods, animal feed, and pharmaceuticals has been central to the struggle for the biosafety protocol. The article analyzes risk communication practices and networking of civil society organizations in both Third world and industrialized countries. It examines the roles played by molecular biologists and other scientists working with activists to explain genetic engineering and its inherent risks as well as their collaboration to utilize rDNA research tools to investigate the hazards to the environment and to human health. The paper will examine links between the watershed "battle in Seattle" over the WTO?s undermining of national environmental protection and the struggle in Montreal to forge an international biosafety protocol regulating trade in genetically modified products. The conclusion will examine the dangers of a consumer rights movement for freedom of choice supplanting a more fundamental citizen rights movement for freedom from corporate imposition of inherently dangerous technologies.
关键词：Sociedad civil; Organismos genéticamente modificados; Semillas modificadas; Protocolo Internacional de Bioseguridad; Bioseguridad.
