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Stochastic Benefit Streams, Learning, and Technology Diffusion : Why Drought Tolerance is Not the New Bt
(AgBioForum, 2010)
The speed of Bt cotton diffusion among smallholders in poor countries such as India, China, and South Africa has been unprecedented. Hopes are high for drought-tolerant (DT) varieties that similarly reduce yield risk and ...
The commercial application of GMO crops in Africa : Burkina Faso's decade of experience with Bt cotton
(AgBioForum, 2010)
Burkina Faso has emerged as one of the more progressive and proactive sub-Saharan African countries regarding biotechnology. In 2009, slightly more than 125,000 ha of second-generation insect-protected biotech cotton ...
Targets and mandates : lessons learned from EU and US biofuels policy mechanisms
(AgBioForum, 2010)
The United States and the European Union have taken different paths in the design and implementation of biofuel policy measures. In the European Union, a target has been set for the contribution of renewable energy in ...
Do Canadian Consumers Have Concerns about Genetically Modified Animal Feeds?
(AgBioForum, 2010)
This article analyzes responses from a 2008 survey of Canadian meat consumers about concerns regarding genetically modified (GM) feed used in livestock meat production. Approximately 50% of the sampled consumers express ...
Price controls and biotechnology innovation : are state government policies reducing research and innovation by the ag biotech industry in India?
(AgBioForum, 2010)
In 2006, the governments of major cotton-producing states in India ordered all seed companies to lower their prices of Bt cotton seed to Rs. 750 per packet of seed, down from Rs. 1,600 per packet. Although biotech firms ...
Public vs. private agbiotech research in the United States and European Union, 2002-2009
(AgBioForum, 2010)
We provide an in-depth analysis of biotechnology patents filed in the European Patent Office (EPO) and US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), building a comprehensive dataset of more than 7,000 patents for the period 2002 ...
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 ...
Overview of Special Issue from the 2009 ICABR Conference
(AgBioForum, 2010)
The theme of the 13th International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR) conference was 'The Emerging Bioeconomy.' Within this theme there were four sub-themes that contained the vast majority of ...
The Economics of Microalgae Oil
(AgBioForum, 2010)
A Monte Carlo simulation model for a commercial-scale microalgae farm in the US desert Southwest was developed and used to compare costs of producing algal oil with two levels of technology. Ranges of input and output ...
The Effect of Biofuels on Crude Oil Markets
(AgBioForum, 2010)
To quantify the effect of biofuel on global oil markets, we extend the optimal export tax model to the global fuel market (henceforth, denoted as the Cartel-of-Nations model), recognizing that crude oil extraction and ...
Transgenic trees for biomass : the effects of regulatory restrictions and court decisions on the pace of commercialization
(AgBioForum, 2010)
Wood has great potential as a bioenergy source, both as a feedstock for liquid biofuels for the transport sector and also as biomass, a direct source of energy that can be used to produce electric power. Trees, however, ...
Managing R&D risk in renewable energy : biofuels vs. alternate technologies
(AgBioForum, 2010)
The government's use of upstream R&D investments and downstream incentives for renewable energy is intended to achieve commercial breakthroughs in biofuels, batteries, fuel cells, hydrogen, solar, and wind energy. The ...
Assessing the welfare effects of US biofuel policies
(AgBioForum, 2010)
This article assesses the main welfare implications of US policies to support biofuels, with an emphasis on corn-based ethanol. The analysis relies on an open economy, multimarket equilibrium model that links world and ...
The future of governance in the global bioeconomy : policy, regulation, and investment challenges for the biotechnology and bioenergy sectors
(AgBioForum, 2010)
Today more than ever, the global bioeconomy is the subject of focused attention from public policymakers, corporate decision makers, researchers in the social and biophysical sciences, and the general public. With both ...
The Adoption and Diffusion of GM Crops in United States : A Real Option Approach
(AgBioForum, 2010)
The article aims at modelling adoption and diffusion decisions of farmers towards genetically modified crops under a real option framework. Modern GM crops help farmers to resolve two main sources of uncertainty: output ...
Is Agricultural Biotechnology Part of Sustainable Agriculture? Different Views in Switzerland and New Zealand
(AgBioForum, 2010)
Most countries claim to be committed to sustainable agriculture. Yet, the meaning of the term 'sustainable agriculture' is largely shaped by influential stakeholders in the public debate and their respective agendas. The ...
Economic Analysis of the Impact of Cloning on Improving Dairy Herd Composition
(AgBioForum, 2010)
While the potential for cloning animals has been realized for at least the last 25 years, it is only recently that sufficient advances have been made to allow the technology to advance to a stage where it is possible that ...
Facilitating Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology : An Examination of the Ag-West Biotech Model, 1989-2004
(AgBioForum, 2010)
Innovation is more than just science. Innovation encompasses a diversity of disciplines, such as law (patents and freedom to operate), economics (spill-over benefits and returns to investment), political science (government ...
Policies to Support Biofuels in Europe : The Changing Landscape of Instruments
(AgBioForum, 2010)
Until 2008/2009, biofuels were considered among the best alternatives to oil consumption in a captive market such as transport fuels. Improvement of security of supply through partial substitution of imported oil, reduction ...
Low-Level Presence of New GM Crops : An Issue on the Rise for Countries Where They Lack Approval
(AgBioForum, 2010)
This study addresses a new issue in the commercialization of GM crops, namely the occurrence of traces -- or "low-level presence" (LLP) -- of nationally unapproved GM material in crop imports. The commercialization of GM ...