Marnus GouseUniversity of Pretoria, South Africa.Carl PrayRutgers University.David SchimmelpfennigUSDA Economic Research Service.Johann KirstenUniversity of Pretoria, South Africa. White maize is the staple food of the majority of the South African population. We examine if smallholder farmers that adopted insect-resistant (Bt) varieties of…

David J. SpielmanInternational Food Policy Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Joel I. CohenScience, Technology and Education Associates, Potomac, MD.Patricia ZambranoInternational Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC. Findings from two studies on agricultural research indicate that although developing countries invest in agricultural biotechnology and…

Gary J. Wingenbach and Tracy A. RutherfordTexas A&M University. What sources of information do media professionals use, and what is the frequency of use, when covering agricultural biotechnology issues? Fifty Texas and 40 national agriculture journalists responded to this study. Respondents accepted…

Carl Johan LagerkvistSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences.Fredrik CarlssonGöteborg University.Diana ViskeSwedish Animal Welfare Agency. This paper compares consumer preferences for immunocastration versus surgical castration and no castration using willingness- to-pay estimates from a choice experiment. Results suggest that consumers place a higher value…

H. Phoebe ChanUniversity of Michigan-Flint. This paper examines the international patent behavior of nine major firms for seven patent authorities: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Patent Office (EPO), Japan, and South Africa. The patent sample is based on firms having an…

Corinne E. Alexander and Thuy Van MellorDepartment of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University. Adoption of transgenic corn resistant to corn rootworm (CRW corn) was analyzed using a probit model with data from a survey of Indiana producers. Operator age, farm size, and regional…

Roger A. SedjoResources for the Future, Washington, DC. Although anticipation of a biotechnology revolution has led to expectations of high rates of adoption and substantial financial returns, one area that has been slow to develop is that of tree biotechnology, particularly genetically…

Gary J. Wingenbach and Tracy A. RutherfordTexas A&M University What do journalists think about information source trustworthiness, bias, and fairness in communicating agricultural biotechnology issues? Fifty Texas journalists and 40 national agriculture journalists representing newspapers and television media responded to this study….

Andrew J. KnightMichigan State University & Arkansas State University. This paper compares the effects of perceived and objective knowledge measures and their relationship to a series of agricultural biotechnology applications using data gathered in a survey of regional Southwestern adults (N =…

Dwayne D. Kirk and Kim McIntoshSchool of Life Sciences, Arizona State University The use of transgenic plants for production and oral delivery of vaccines has been shown effective in animal trials and Phase I human clinical testing. The use of edible plants…