Zoia Komirenko, Michele M. Veeman, and James R. UnterschultzUniversity of Alberta 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…

Jeffrey GillespieLouisiana State University Agricultural CenterRichard Nehring, Charlie Hallahan, and Carmen SandrettoUS Department of Agriculture, Economic Research ServiceLoren TauerCornell University This article analyzes the adoption and profitability of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) in the United States. Probit model results show that location…

Getu Hailu, Alfons Weersink & Filip CahlíkUniversity of Guelph The purpose of the article is to examine the prospects for the commercialization of soybeans peroxidase (SBP) from soybean hulls and to model uncertainty and strategic flexibility in biotechnology management and investment. The…

Ahsan AbdullahFoundation University Islamabad, Pakistan Although commercial cultivation of Bt cotton was not officially allowed in Pakistan until very recently, the area under Bt cultivation has increased every year, and during the 2009/2010 cotton season it stood at around 70% of all…

Justus WesselerWageningen UniversityStuart SmythUniversity of SaskatchewanSara ScatastaUniversity of Hohenheim Until the recent financial crisis, biology-based industries were some of the most rapidly growing sectors of the world economy—the biofuels business was booming, agriculture commodity prices were high, agricultural biotechnology firms were making…

Stuart J. SmythUniversity of SaskatchewanJosé B. Falck-ZepedaInternational Food Policy Research InstituteRichard S. GrayUniversity of SaskatchewanAnwar NassemMcGill UniversityRobert PaarlbergWellesley CollegePeter W.B. PhillipsUniversity of SaskatchewanCarl E. PrayRutgers UniversitySara Savastano and Pasquale ScandizzoUniversity of Rome (Tor Vergata)Sara ScatastaUniversity of HohenheimJustus H.H. WesselerWageningen UniversityDavid ZilbermanUniversity of…

Odin K. KnudsenJ.P. Morgan This article argues that the severe (or Black Swan) event of a financial crisis provides the opportunity to address other threatening issues—energy insecurity and climate change with the associated extreme weather events. The financial crisis has been catalytic…

Gal Hochman, Deepak Rajagopal, and David ZilbermanUniversity of California-Berkeley 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…

James W. Richardson, Joe L. Outlaw, and Marc AllisonTexas A&M University 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….

Augusto NinniUniversity of Parma and IEFE/Bocconi University, Milan, Italy 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 of…