Matthew C. RousuSusquehanna University It was a coincidence that GM foods became ubiquitous at the same time that researchers started using experimental auctions to study consumer preferences for food products. We explore the history of experimental auctions used to study GM food…

Carola GrebitusArizona State UniversityHelen H. JensenIowa State UniversityJutta RoosenTechnical University of MunichJoseph G. SebranekIowa State University Today’s consumer is interested in safe food products and foods with “natural” ingredients. The main objective of this study was to determine consumers’ purchasing decisions for…

Xianwen Chen, Frode Alfnes, and Kyrre RickertsenNorwegian University of Life Sciences Consumers prefer ecolabeled products. However, little is known about the effects of ecolabels when consumers are simultaneously exposed to negative environmental information about the ecolabeled products. We conducted a stated choice…

Jesse L. Strzok and Wallace E. HuffmanIowa State University The market for organic products has grown rapidly over the past decade, and such products are now available not only in specialty stores but also in large grocery stores, supermarkets, and big-box super…

N. Chandrasekhara RaoInstitute of Economic Growth, New DelhiCarl E. PrayRutgers, The State University of New JerseyRonald J. HerringCornell University Long-term stagnation in total factor productivity of major crops in Indian agriculture coupled with a price-incentive-based spurt in recent growth have been responsible…

Ronald J. HerringCornell University Much of the literature on agricultural biotechnology is agro-economic. How material facts on the ground relate to a unique set of politics determining deployment of the technology is less discussed. This article begins with the global rift over…

Sangeeta BansalJawaharlal Nehru University, IndiaGuillaume GruèreFormerly International Food Policy Research Institute Several genetically modified (GM) food crops have reached an advanced stage in the research and regulatory pipeline in India. The government of India is in the process of introducing a mandatory…

Gregory D. GraffColorado State UniversityGal HochmanRutgers UniversityChubashini SuntharlingamColorado State University and Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development InstituteDavid ZilbermanUniversity of California, Berkeley and Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Agricultural science and technology policies—including public funding of crop genetics research, intellectual property protections, and…

Latha NagarajanInternational Fertilizer Development CenterCarl E. Pray and Anwar NaseemRutgers University Private seed firms in India have made significant investments in cotton breeding and biotechnology since the 1980s. These investments have paid off with a series of proprietary hybrids that were developed…

Prakash SadashivappaUniversity of Hohenheim, Germany Several empirical studies have evaluated the farm-level and aggregate impacts of transgenic crops in developed and developing countries, however there is extensive opposition in the wider public. In particular, concerns have been raised about the performance of…