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The Future of Agricultural Biotechnology : Creative Destruction, Adoption, or Irrelevance? In Honor of Prof. Vittorio Santaniello
(AgBioForum, 2009)
The articles are from the International Consortium for Agricultural Biotechnology Research Conference held June 12-14, 2008 in Ravello, Italy. They were selected for this special issue and cover a variety of important current and future socio...
Beginning to Inform the Theory of the Cooperative Firm: Emergence of the New Generation Cooperative
(Association for Business Administration Studies, 1999-04)
-new generation of agricultural cooperative surfaced, and 3) to examine the unique organizational attributes - especially the property rights characteristics - of this form of cooperative by describing the case of Dakota Growers Pasta, a new generation cooperative...
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Stocks of Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property
(AgBioForum, 2005)
A subset of patents owned by six large agricultural biotechnology companies is analyzed from the new Initiatives for Future Agriculture and Food Systems (IFAFS) Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property database. These patents account...
Public science, biotechnology, and the industrial organization of agrofood systems
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Concentration in the agricultural biotechnology sector and general patterns of restructuring raise important policy questions regarding public investments in research and extension. We argue that the most valuable contributions public sector...
Research Prizes : A Mechanism to Reward Agricultural Innovation in Low-Income Regions
(AgBioForum, 2003)
This paper identifies market failures that limit biotechnology research for farmers in low-income regions and proposes a system of cash prizes to reward the dissemination of successful innovations. The prize authority would ...
Interaction between agricultural extension services and environmental management accounting : the role of farmer value orientations
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2021)
The present study aimed to examine the value orientations of farmers in Malaysia and the role that these orientations play in facilitating increased environmental management accounting under the presence of efficient and effective Agricultural...
Time series analysis of the effects of agriculture credit and Extension services on crop productivity in Malaysia
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2021)
The primary purpose of the present study is to evaluate the impact of agricultural credit, technical efficiency, and extension services on the crop productivity. The context of the study was based in Malaysia and the paddy rice were used...
Introduction to Hedging Agricultural Commodities with Options
(University of Missouri Extension, 2000-12)
Producers of agricultural commodities regularly face price and production risk. Furthermore, increased global free trade and changes in domestic agricultural policy have increased these risks. As the variability of price and production increases...
News' Compartmentalization : Implications for Food Biotechnology Coverage
(AgBioForum, 2001)
news often has been perceived as an agriculture food or business story, instead of a science, environment, or investigative story. All these news emphases, or beats, have different traditions and inclinations in news reporting, which may explain how...
Review of Corn: Chemistry And Technology
(Taylor & Francis, 2006)
The article reviews the book "Corn: Chemistry And Technology," 2nd Edition, edited by Pamela J. White and Lawrence A. Johnson.
Determinants for farmers' decisions to participate in developing agricultural tourism activities. An empirical study of Iraq's economy
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2022)
As he cultivates agricultural land, the farmer plays a crucial role in agricultural tourism. Farmers with less innovativeness do not contribute to the nation's economic prosperity. Agriculture tourism in Iraq is not as advanced as in affluent...
Introduction to Hedging Agricultural Commodities with Futures
(University of Missouri Extension, 2000-12)
Producers of agricultural commodities regularly face price and production risk. Furthermore, increased global free trade and changes in domestic agricultural policy have increased these risks. As the variability of price and production increases...
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 Research and Development...
US Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnology : An Overview
(AgBioForum, 2000)
Three federal agencies -- the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- share primary responsibility for regulating biotechnology in the United States...
Considering Religious and Cultural Aspects of Food and Agriculture when Seeking to Introduce or Develop GMOs
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2014)
the perceived risk and benefits associated with agricultural biotechnology. The future of agbiotech rests in true cooperative engagement across all sectors of the agricultural network to address most of these conflicts, and this requires a strong religious...
Poverty impacts of improved agricultural productivity : opportunities for genetically modified crops
(AgBioForum, 2010)
Constraints on land and water resources, growth in population, and an apparent slowdown in agricultural productivity raise concerns that food prices may rise substantially in the coming decades. A key question is whether policies aimed at increasing...
Review of The World Sugar Market
(Taylor & Francis, 2006)
Reviews the book "The World Sugar Market," by Sergey Gudoshnikov, Lindsay Jolly and Donald Spence.
Special Issue in Honor of Jimmye S. Hillman : Introduction
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2014)
In March 2013, the annual research conference for US Department of Agriculture multi-state research project NC-1034 (Impact Analyses and Decision Strategies for Agricultural Research) was held at the University of Arizona, Tucson. This special issue...
Sustainability and the Bioeconomy
(AgBioForum, 2011)
synthesis of key findings from ICABR 2011. They address questions related to the potential of the new bio-economy in general, as well as biofuels, the adoption of organic and GM agriculture to address issues related to agricultural productivity, product...
Public Acceptance of Agricultural Biotechnology
(AgBioForum, 1998)
Trends in public attitudes toward agro-biotechnology have been traced and analyzed in many countries around the globe. Over the years, there have been concerns about perceived environmental and food safety risks from the ...