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Bt Cotton Adoption in The United States and China : International Trade and Welfare Effects
(AgBioForum, 2006)
Many studies report that Bt cotton has led to significant yield gains, reduced insecticide use, or both in different countries. With rare exception, these studies examine adoption in one region in isolation from adoption ...
Public Perceptions of Tobacco Biopharming
(AgBioForum, 2006)
A telephone survey of United States consumers' views on tobacco biopharming indicates widespread support for developing the technology when it generates a socially beneficial application. Perceptions of risks associated ...
The Division of Labor Under Homogeneity: A Critique of Mises and Rothbard
(Blackwell, 2007-04)
Even the most passionate defenders of free trade, such as Mises and Rothbard, claim that trade cannot occur under conditions of strict homogeneity of land, labor, and capital. We show that specialization, trade, and the ...
Impact of Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin on Dairy Farm Cost of Production : Evidence from Multiyear Data
(AgBioForum, 2006)
New York dairy farm data over the years 1994-2002 were used to estimate the impact of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) use on the cost of producing a hundredweight of milk. Both fixed and random effects models were ...
Innovation and Dynamic Efficiency in Plant Biotechnology : An Introduction to the Researchable Issues
(AgBioForum, 2005)
The agricultural biotechnology industry is characterized by heavy investment in research and development, dynamic technical change, and increasing concentration in both the output market and the ownership of intellectual ...
Intellectual Property Rights on Research Tools : Incentives or Barriers to Innovation? Case Studies of Rice Genomics and Plant Transformation Technologies
(AgBioForum, 2005)
This paper examines the role of patents in the development and use of two platform technologies for plant biotechnology -- plant transformation techniques and structural genomics. We find that patents were important in ...
Will Agbiotech Applications Reach Marginalized Farmers? Evidence from Developing Countries
(AgBioForum, 2006)
Findings from two studies on agricultural research indicate that although developing countries invest in agricultural biotechnology and genetically modified crop research, their policy and investment environments inhibit ...
Three Seasons of Subsistence Insect-Resistant Maize in South Africa : Have Smallholders Benefited?
(AgBioForum, 2006)
White maize is the staple food of the majority of the South African population. We examine if smallholder farmers that adopted insect-resistant (Bt) varieties of white maize benefited from planting Bt over the last three ...
Can Technology Transfer Help Public-Sector Researchers Do More with Less? The Case of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service
(AgBioForum, 2005)
Private funding for agricultural research now exceeds that of the public sector. Other changes have included policies to make greater use of technology transfer mechanisms, such as patents and licensing and Cooperative ...
Does Plant Variety Intellectual Property Protection Improve Farm Productivity? Evidence from Cotton Varieties
(AgBioForum, 2005)
The plant variety protection (PVP) system has been criticized by some authors as being nothing more than a marketing tool and not having much effect on productivity. We investigate this issue for the case of cotton in the ...
Property Rights and Incentives to Invest in Seed Varieties : Governmental Regulations in Argentina
(AgBioForum, 2005)
This paper analyzes the evolution of property rights legislation in Argentina with respect to new seed varieties. In comparison to the United States, Argentina has weak protection and enforcement of property rights for new ...
Monopoly Power, Price Discrimination, and Access to Biotechnology Innovations
(AgBioForum, 2005)
Price discrimination and monopoly power in the provision of an intellectual property (IP) protected innovation are analyzed. A general analytical model parameterized with data from the US introduction of Bt cotton is used ...
Innovation and Dynamic Efficiency in Agricultural Biotechnology
(AgBioForum, 2005)
Innovation is the key to firm survival and growth in many industries, but nowhere more so than in agricultural biotechnology. Understanding the causes and consequences of biotechnology innovation requires negotiating a ...
An Empirical Analysis of United States Consumers' Concerns About Eight Food Production and Processing Technologies
(AgBioForum, 2005)
For a representative sample of US consumers, we analyze ratings of concern toward eight food production and processing technologies: antibiotics, pesticides, artificial growth hormones, genetic modification (GM), irradiation, ...
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 Corn Farmer Compliance with Insect Resistance Management Requirements in Minnesota and Wisconsin
(AgBioForum, 2005)
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) re-registered Bt corn in 2001 with mandatory insect resistance management (IRM) requirements in order to promote sustainable use by farmers. Since then studies have ...
GM Crops : The Global Economic and Environmental Impact -- The First Nine Years 1996-2004
(AgBioForum, 2005)
2005 represents the tenth planting season since genetically modified (GM) crops were first grown in 1996. This milestone provides the opportunity to critically assess the impact this technology is having on global agriculture. ...
An Economic Cost-Benefit Analysis of GM Crop Cultivation : An Irish Case Study
(AgBioForum, 2004)
Presently, no genetically modified (GM) crops are cultivated in Ireland. It is anticipated, however, that the introduction of coexistence guidelines could encourage the uptake of certain GM varieties. The objective of this ...
A Public Consultation on Plant Molecular Farming
(AgBioForum, 2005)
Plant molecular farming (PMF) is another phase in the ongoing research and development of transgenic plants, offering possibilities of producing therapeutic and industrial proteins. However, this technology poses important ...
Second-Generation GMOs : Where to from Here?
(AgBioForum, 2005)
The driving force behind the growth of the agricultural biotechnology industry is the potential to increase efficiency in the production of commodities and to provide benefits to consumers and producers as well as profits ...