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Survey evidence on legal and illegal Hispanic immigrants' perceptions of living and working in US agriculture
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
This study presents survey evidence on legal and illegal Hispanic immigrants' perceptions of living and working in the United States. Three key findings emerge that present a negative outlook for the agricultural industry ...
The impact of maternal occupation and pre-pregnancy weight status on childhood obesity
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Matched mother/child data from the 2008 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth are used to estimate how child, maternal, and household characteristics -- including the mother's occupation and pre-pregnancy weight status -- ...
Testing the Induced Innovation Hypothesis : accounting for innovation creation and innovation implementation incentives
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Despite extensive empirical literature on the induced innovation hypothesis in US agriculture, this article reports only the second set of tests for this industry that account for supply as well as demand for new input-saving ...
Introduction : essays in honor of Wallace Huffman
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
This introduction relates how Wallace Huffman went from a farm boy in southern Iowa to Iowa State University and the University of Chicago, and then brought the human capital approach of T.W. Schultz and D. Gale Johnson ...
The loss from underutilizing GM technologies
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
This article introduces a framework based on a real-option approach to assess the economics of delaying the introduction of genetically modified (GM) technologies in agriculture due to concerns about their unintended effects ...
Fifteen years of experimental auctions of GM foods : what have we learned about policy, preferences, and auction design?
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
It was a coincidence that GM foods became ubiquitous at the same time that researchers started using experimental auctions to study consumer preferences for food products. We explore the history of experimental auctions ...
Eighty years of research on rural economic development, agglomeration, migration, commuting, income, innovation, and entrepreneurship : the Iowa state human capital tradition
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Wallace Huffman continued the tradition of research on Midwest rural labor markets at Iowa State University that was begun in the 1930s by his advisers T.W. Schultz and D. Gale Johnson. We review the lessons learned from ...
Biotechnology for a second green revolution in India : socioeconomic, political, and public policy issues
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Long-term stagnation in total factor productivity of major crops in Indian agriculture coupled with a price-incentive-based spurt in recent growth have been responsible for the reversal of secular decline in food prices ...
The potential economic impacts of herbicide-tolerant maize in developing countries : a case study
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
In this study, we evaluate the potential economic impact of herbicide-tolerant (HT) maize in Kenya. HT maize is essentially a new weed-control approach. The potential agronomic changes from the use of HT maize are ...
Politics of biotechnology : ideas, risk, and interest in cases from India
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Much of the literature on agricultural biotechnology is agro-economic. How material facts on the ground relate to a unique set of politics determining deployment of the technology is less discussed. This article begins ...
The competing policy paradigms of agricultural biotechnology : implications and opportunities for emerging and developing economies
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Agricultural science and technology policies -- including public funding of crop genetics research, intellectual property protections, and biosafety approvals of regulated crops -- can be understood to work together within ...
Empirical analysis on the impact of private-sector R&D on cotton productivity in India
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Private seed firms in India have made significant investments in cotton breeding and biotechnology since the 1980s. These investments have paid off with a series of proprietary hybrids that were developed using the inbred ...
Socio-economic Impacts of Bt Cotton Adoption in India : evidence from panel data
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Several empirical studies have evaluated the farm-level and aggregate impacts of transgenic crops in developed and developing countries, however there is extensive opposition in the wider public. In particular, concerns ...
Labeling GM food in India : anticipating the effects on GM brinjal and rice marketing chains
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Several genetically modified (GM) food crops have reached an advanced stage in the research and regulatory pipeline in India. The government of India is in the process of introducing a mandatory labeling policy for GM food. ...
Technology diffusion and adoption in cotton cultivation : emerging scenario in Gujarat
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Technology adoption in agriculture depends on the access to information by farmers. This article focuses on the diffusion of seed and pesticide technology among the Bt cotton growers in Gujarat, India.
Segregation between GM and non-GM inputs in EU feed and food supply chains : future scenarios
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2017)
This study used a participatory scenario development approach -- more precisely, a two-day exploratory experts-based workshop -- to identify the key driving forces influencing future scenarios for the segregation between ...
Exploring the constraints to further expansion of GM maize production in Portugal
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2017)
After 10 years of GM maize cultivation in Portugal, the area produced remains modest, at 6.3% of total maize production in 2015. This fact suggests that significant constraints to further expansion continue to exist. Through ...
Economic and environmental benefits of biotech potatoes with traits for bruise resistance, late blight resistance, and cold storage
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2017)
In 2015 biotech potatoes re-entered the US market after a hiatus since 2001. The JR Simplot Company received regulatory approval for its Innate(TM) 1.0 potatoes that have traits for low acrylamide and resistance to bruising ...
Compliance costs for regulatory approval of c4 rice
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2017)
So far, most new biotech crops have been developed by transforming one or two genes with preferred traits. Compliance costs for regulatory approval of this type of crop vary among countries and according to whether the new ...
Biosafety regulatory systems overseeing the use of genetically modified organisms in the Latin America and Caribbean region
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2017)
The development of a legal framework and the establishment of an administrative system are two fundamental elements when building a biosafety regulatory system. Further, the ability to process applications and make decisions ...