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dc.contributor.authorFalck-Zepeda, José Benjamineng
dc.contributor.authorSanders, Arieeng
dc.contributor.authorTrabanino, Carlos Rogelioeng
dc.contributor.authorBatallas-Huacon, Rolandoeng
dc.coverage.spatialHonduraseng
dc.date.issued2012eng
dc.description.abstractInsect-resistant/herbicide-tolerant (Bt/RR) maize has been approved for commercialization in Honduras, and has been sold commercially since 2006. In 2007-2008, we conducted a survey of 113 farmers in the country, including 67 Bt/RR adopters and 46 conventional maize users. We also conducted agronomic, small- and large-plot experiments in situ and one crop-cycle planting with a Farmer Field School. Adopters were few and difficult to locate in a random sampling framework. We applied a battery of diagnostic and estimation methods to address these problems of outliers and endogeneity. Results based on robust and instrumental variables regression of survey data suggest that in the presence of target insects, producers may observe reduced pest damage and/or a decrease in pesticide applications. Results are quite sensitive to the presence of outliers. Nevertheless, results from the agronomic, in situ, and Farmer Field School tend to support the conclusions from our survey analysis.eng
dc.identifier.citationAgBioForum, 15(2), 138-151.eng
dc.identifier.issn1522-936Xeng
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10355/16004
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.publisherAgBioForumeng
dc.relation.ispartofcollectionAgBioForum, vol. 15, no. 2 (2012)eng
dc.relation.ispartofcommunityUniversity of Missouri-Columbia. College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources. Division of Applied Social Sciences. Department of Agricultural Economics. Economics and Management of Agrobiotechnology Center. AgBioForum.eng
dc.rightsOpenAccess.eng
dc.rights.licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.subjectendogeneityeng
dc.subjectinsect resistanceeng
dc.subjectherbicide toleranceeng
dc.subjectinstrumental variableseng
dc.subjectrobust regressioneng
dc.subject.lcshCorn -- Biotechnologyeng
dc.subject.lcshCorn -- Disease and pest resistanceeng
dc.subject.lcshHerbicide resistanceeng
dc.titleCaught between Scylla and Charybdis : impact estimation issues from the early adoption of GM maize in Honduraseng
dc.typeArticleeng


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