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The Role of Biotechnology in a Sustainable Biofuel Future
(AgBioForum, 2009)
Biofuel production has increased dramatically since 2000, impacting markets for food and fuel. This article uses a partial equilibrium model to simulate biofuel impacts. We find that US biofuel production imposes costs on ...
Economic Impacts of Not Extending Biofuel Subsidies
(AgBioForum, 2007)
The exponential growth of the biofuels industry has created significant increases in feed prices to the livestock sector. In February and March of 2007, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and the National Pork ...
Technology Fees Versus GURTs in the Presence of Spillovers : World Welfare Impacts
(AgBioForum, 2005)
A two-country extension of an ex ante simulation model of research and development (R&D) in agriculture developed by Lence, Hayes, McCunn, Smith, and Niebur (2005) is used to analyze issues regarding intellectual property ...
Bt Cotton Adoption in The United States and China : International Trade and Welfare Effects
(AgBioForum, 2006)
.7% and reduced the world cotton price by 1.4 cents per pound. Global economic benefits were $836 million. Consumer surplus increased $63 million. Chinese producers gained by $428 million and US producers by $179 million. The fall in world price reduced rest...
GM Foods : A Nanjing Case Study of Chinese Consumers' Awareness and Potential Attitudes
(AgBioForum, 2002)
This article provides insights on Chinese consumers' awareness of and potential attitudes toward genetically modified (GM) foods and identifies major factors influencing these attitudes as assessed by telephone interviews ...
Energy-Aware Portable Video Communication System Design for Wildlife Activity Monitoring
(IEEE, 2008)
In this paper, we introduce our recent research and development effort on energy-efficient portable video communication system design for wildlife activity monitoring. The
capability of seeing what an animal sees in the ...
Potential of Herbicide-Resistant Rice Technologies for Sub-Saharan Africa
(AgBioForum, 2009)
Weed-inflicted yield losses in rice equate to half the current rice imports in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and African rice farmers have a limited range of effective and affordable weed management technologies. Herbicide-resistance ...