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Mobile phones and market participation among smallholder farmers in the Bolivian altiplano
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Farm households in the developing world who choose to be self-sufficient, instead of producing for the market, lack the money necessary for purchasing what cannot be produced within the home. It has been noted that households ...
The impact of corn rootworm protected biotechnology traits in the United States
(AgBioForum, 2012)
Recently, one type of corn rootworm has developed resistance to a single strain of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that is genetically engineered into corn seed. This resistance development has occurred in small, localized ...
Unweaving the threads : the experiences of female farmers with biotech cotton in Colombia
(AgBioForum, 2012)
Although the literature on gender in agriculture is extensive, gender has been under studied in the published literature about biotech crops in developing countries. To explore whether gender affects access to and use of ...
Analysis of contracting alternatives for switchgrass as a production alternative on an east Tennessee beef and crop farm
(AgBioForum, 2012)
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 has prompted the development of renewable energy. The research objective was to determine what contracting terms provide sufficient incentives for farmers to establish ...
The effect of organizational structure on firm first day underpricing, long-term performance : evidence from U.S. biotech initial public offerings from 1996 to 2004
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This paper investigates the effect of organizational structure on firm first-day return (underpricing), and long-term performance. Using 206 United ...
Pure Economic Loss and Non-Adopters : Comparing Liability in Australia, Canada, and the United States
(AgBioForum, 2012)
Australia, Canada, and the United States all allow GM crops to be released into the open environment. In all three jurisdictions, non-adopters of GM crops claim they can no longer choose to be non-adopters. The issue of ...
The Step-wise Approach to Adoption of Genetically Modified (GM) Canola in Western Australia
(AgBioForum, 2012)
This article presents a review and analysis of the process of commercial adoption of genetically modified (GM) canola in Western Australia with the aim of providing information to aid in the planning for the adoption of ...
A Quinquennium of Coexistence in Portugal
(AgBioForum, 2012)
Portugal is one of the few European Union countries that experience the "coexistence" of a coexistence legal framework with a regular coexistence practice. Since 2005, Bt maize crops have been grown in different regions ...
Quantification of Low-level GM Seed Presence in Canadian Commercial Flax Stocks
(AgBioForum, 2012)
Detection and quantification of the prevalence of genetically modified (GM) organism contamination in seed exports is a critical element of regulatory compliance. While the procedures to reliably detect high levels of GM ...
Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms in the Latin American and the Caribbean Region : Main Needs and Opportunities for Strategic Capacity Building
(AgBioForum, 2012)
Biotechnology has the potential to help improve food production in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), a continent where agriculture plays a dominant role in peoples' lives and in trade. It is therefore critical that ...
The Market-Mediated Effects of Low Carbon Fuel Policies
(AgBioForum, 2012)
This article analyzes the domestic and global rebound effects of a carbon price policy, the existing Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), and a proposed national Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) and examines implications for the ...
Pollen-Mediated Gene Flow in Wheat Fields in Western Canada
(AgBioForum, 2012)
Crop intraspecific pollen-mediated gene flow (PMGF) can be scale-dependent. A study was conducted in western Canada to examine PMGF in commercial spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) fields. At each of two sites located in ...
Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods among Maltese Youths : Can Exposure to Formal Knowledge Make a Difference?
(AgBioForum, 2012)
This article examines the perceptions and acceptance of GM foods in 217 Maltese youths and attempts to establish whether exposure to formal channels of knowledge -- such as biology tuition -- may act to predispose students ...
Understanding Agricultural Species Metapopulation Biology and Ecology and the Implications for Coexistence in Low Level of Presence Scenarios
(AgBioForum, 2012)
The intraspecific movement of novel traits in agriculture involves a metapopulation that includes cropped, volunteer, and feral subpopulations as well as a latent population comprised of any viable seed anywhere within the ...
Specialization and the firm
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This dissertation investigates the causes of integration in the market, especially as pertains to specialized exchange economies with intensive resource heterogeneity. While the transaction cost theories of the firm are ...
GM maize as subsistence crop : the South African smallholder experience
(AgBioForum, 2012)
The South African smallholder GM maize experience has been -- to date and internationally -- the only example where a subsistence crop is produced by smallholder resource poor-farmers using GM seed. Their experience is ...
Bi-modal preferences for Bt maize in the Philippines : a latent class model
(AgBioForum, 2012)
The only country in Asia to have approved a biotech food or feed crop is the Philippines, where Bt maize was initially commercialized in 2003. This study uses the choice experiment method and a latent class model to ...
A case of resistance : herbicide-tolerant soybeans in Bolivia
(AgBioForum, 2012)
The Bolivian National Constitution of 2009 prohibits the commercialization of genetically modified organisms, but the decree permitting the unique event of glyphosate resistance was enacted earlier. Herbicide-tolerant (HT) ...
Biological Confinement Strategies for Seed- and Pollen-Mediated Gene Flow of GM Canola (Brassica napus L.)
(AgBioForum, 2012)
Canola (Brassica napus) varieties containing inherent restrictions on gene flow may address problems of seed- and pollen-mediated gene flow. The aim of this study was to explore the effectiveness of 1) low-dormancy varieties ...
Food Fight : The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development
(AgBioForum, 2012)
The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development (IAASTD) was created in 2002 to address global problems of agriculture and food security. More than 400 scientists contributed ...