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The producer benefits of herbicide-resistant canola
(AgBioForum, 1999)
The commercial sale of herbicide resistant (HR) canola has raised questions about the benefits of this new technology for seed and chemical companies, farmers, consumers, and other players in the supply chain. In this ...
Trait enthusiasm does not guarantee on-farm profits
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Adoption of agronomic traits has led to investment into quality traits. However, true values of these traits are poorly understood. Traits may lack the required value to satisfy all participants in the chain from technology ...
The distribution of benefits from the introduction of transgenic cotton varieties
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Some concern has been expressed about the potential for abuse of monopoly power in the marketing of genetically modified (GM) seeds in the United States (U.S.). Are the firms marketing GM seeds extracting all of the benefits ...
A farm level perspective on agrobiotechnology : how much value and for whom?
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Even the optimists among biotechnology proponents have been caught off guard by the extremely fast farm-level adoption of bioengineered crops. In 1999, just four years from commercial introduction, an estimated 40% of the ...
Biotechnology offers U.S. farmers promises and problems
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Transgenic crops promise to drastically change how farmers produce and market their feedgrains and oilseeds. These changes will produce challenges for United States (U.S.) farmers and the entire agricultural industry. How ...
Ten reasons why biotechnology will be important to the developing world
(AgBioForum, 1999)
The objective in this article is to challenge misconceptions often put forward about the technologies of biotechnology. In particular, I challenge many of the arguments put forward by Altieri and Rosset in their paper ...
Biotechnology capacity of LDCs in the Asian Pacific Rim
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Biotechnology is comprised of a continuum of technologies ranging from long established and widely applied technologies to more recent recombinant DNA (rDNA) techniques. Several of the technologies are reviewed in this ...
Intellectual property protection, biotechnology and developing countries : will the trips be effective?
(AgBioForum, 1999)
The international protection of intellectual property has been a contentious issue between developed and developing countries. Protection of intellectual property rights in agricultural biotechnology is the latest manifestation ...
Can agricultural biotechnology make a difference in Africa?
(AgBioForum, 1999)
There has been much recent discussion on the potential impact of biotechnology on
development in Africa. Can agricultural biotechnology make a significant difference, or would a strategy combining conventional breeding ...
Assessing the prospects for the transfer of genetically modified crop varities to developing countries
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Although genetically modified varieties (GMVs) have been commercially successful in the United States (U.S.), their future in developing countries (DCs) with smaller markets is uncertain. How likely is it that relatively ...
Measuring agricultural biotechnology research capacity in four developing countries
(AgBioForum, 1999)
In 1998, the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) conducted a biotechnology research indicator survey of four national agricultural research systems -- in Mexico, Kenya, Indonesia, and Zimbabwe. ...
Biotechnology in the global economy : beyond technical advances and risks
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Agricultural biotechnology is the subject of extensive public debates in many countries.
This article presents a summary of the results of the International Conference onBiotechnology in the Global Economy held in September ...
Regulation of biotechnologies in LDCs : implications for technology development and transfer
(AgBioForum, 1999)
The diffusion of biotechnology in most countries of the developing world is likely to take the form of embedded technologies (transgenic seed). In some countries with an incipient science and technology capacity diffusion ...
Agricultural biotechnology, trade and the developing countries
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Developing countries and their low-income people could benefit significantly from thedevelopment and use of modern biotechnology in agriculture within a proper biosafety
regime. However, international agreements on ...
Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance
(Transaction Publishers, 1999)
In this article, I focus on the financial-market entrepreneur--what Rothbard (1962, 1985) calls the capitalist-entrepreneur-- to outline some features of an Austrian theory of corporate governance. I begin by reviewing the ...
Economic Calculation and the Limits of Organization
(Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 1996)
This paper highlights some distinctive Austrian contributions to the theory of the firm, contributions that have been largely neglected, both inside and outside the Austrian literature. In particular, Mises's concept of ...
Contracts and the Institutional Environment for Electricity Reform
(Elsevier, 1999-12)
Recent law and economics literature suggests that courts and administrative agencies should allow utilities to renegotiate supply contracts signed prior to restructuring, as an attractive alternative to continued regulatory ...
Biotechnology : an essay on the academy, cultural attitudes and public policy
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Biotechnology is the latest historical example of a scientific discipline creating enormous cultural, social, and public policy controversies. By comparing biotechnology to these past controversies, and by comparing ...
Evaluating the gains associated with biotechnological improvement : the case of kiwifruit in New Zealand
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Significant productivity gains are achievable from the improvement of kiwifruit. Genetic engineering is perceived as a tool for product diversification associated with alterations in quality attributes and the seasonal ...
Sophisticated irrigation technology and biotechnology adoption : impacts on ground water conservation
(AgBioForum, 1999)
A county-wide dynamic optimization model is used to evaluate the potential contribution associated with the adoption of sophisticated irrigation system technology and anticipated biotechnological advances in crop production ...