AgBioForum, vol. 12, no. 2 (2009)
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"Health-enhancing" Products in the Italian Food Industry : Multinationals and SMEs Competing on Yogurt
(AgBioForum, 2009)The purpose of this research is to present a detailed analytical(qualitative) study of the new "health-enhancing" products in the Italian marketplace, with a focus on both the multinational corporations and the small and ... -
Valuing Information on GM Foods in a WTA Market : What Information is Most Valuable?
(AgBioForum, 2009)Many markets for novel food products are characterized by a lack of information. To counter a lack of information, governmental and non-governmental entities often want to provide consumers with information but do not know ... -
A Binary Logit Analysis of Factors Impacting Adoption of Genetically Modified Cotton
(AgBioForum, 2009)Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) data for 2003 were used to estimate two binary logit models for two definitions of genetically modified (GM) cottonseed adoption: one in which adoption of either Bacillus ... -
Ex-ante Impact Assessment of GM Papaya Adoption in Thailand
(AgBioForum, 2009)Despite the evidence of benefits from GM papaya's adoption in other countries, concerns over the loss of export markets and health and environmental risks have led to great uncertainty and indecision about policies to ... -
Global Impact of Biotech Crops : Income and Production Effects, 1996-2007
(AgBioForum, 2009)This article updates the assessment of the impact of commercialized agricultural biotechnology on global agriculture from an economic perspective. It examines specific global economic impacts on farm income, indirect ... -
Bt Cotton in India : Development of Benefits and the Role of Government Seed Price Interventions
(AgBioForum, 2009)While previous research has analyzed the impacts of Bt cotton in India, most available studies are based only on one or two years of data. We analyze the technology's performance over the first five years of adoption, using ... -
Impact of Intellectual Property Rights in the Seed Sector on Crop Yield Growth and Social Welfare : A Case Study Approach
(AgBioForum, 2009)A case-study approach is used to track research funding decisions made by the private seed sector. The three cases chosen provide a range of intellectual property protection (IPP) environments, crops, and companies, namely, ... -
Corn Amylase : Improving the Efficiency and Environmental Footprint of Corn to Ethanol through Plant Biotechnology
(AgBioForum, 2009)Treatment of starch-based grain with an alpha-amylase enzyme is essential to convert available starch to fermentable sugars in the production of ethanol. In an effort to improve the efficiencies of corn-based ethanol ...