AgBioForum, vol. 13, no.4 (2010)
Special Issue: 2010 International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR) Conference. Click on one of the browse buttons above for a complete listing of the contents of this issue.
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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, ... -
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 ... -
Resolving FTO barriers in GM canola
(AgBioForum, 2010)The development of intellectual property (IP) protection in plant breeding brought much-needed private investment into canola research in the 1980s, but at the same time, fragmented research and IP ownership. In the 1990s, ... -
Resistance management and sustainable use of agricultural biotechnology
(AgBioForum, 2010)While crop biotechnologies deployed worldwide with herbicide-resistant (HR) or insect-resistant (IR) traits have provided significant economic and environmental benefits, these benefits are threatened by the evolution of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Policy gridlock or future change? : the political economy dynamics of EU biotechnology regulation
(AgBioForum, 2010)There are major differences in biotechnology regulation among various countries and in particular between the European Union and the United States. We summarize a formal and dynamic model of government decision-making on ... -
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 ... -
Indirect land use change : a second-best solution to a first-class problem
(AgBioForum, 2010)Concern about the possible effects of biofuels on deforestation have led to assigning biofuel producers with the responsibility for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the indirect land-use changes (ILUC) associated with ... -
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 ... -
Developments in agricultural biotechnology in sub-Saharan Africa
(AgBioForum, 2010)A number of crops with a variety of traits are being developed by public-private partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa. These include maize that is resistant to the parasitic weed, Striga; tolerant to drought, and resistant ... -
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 ... -
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 ...