Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik, and David R. JustCornell University Biofuels policies have a large impact on food-grain commodity prices, first and foremost by linking biofuel prices to feedstock prices. The multiplier effect of higher biofuel prices on feedstock prices is shown…
Richard MulwaCentre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law and Policy (CASELAP), University of NairobiDavid Wafula and Margaret KarembuISAAA AfriCenterMichael WaithakaASARECA Cotton farmers in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) face pest challenges, the most destructive of which is the…
Obidimma C. EzezikaSandra Rotman Centre, University Health Network and University of Toronto, African Centre for Innovation and Leadership Development, and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of TorontoJennifer Deadman, Jillian Murray, and Justin MabeyaSandra Rotman Centre, University Health Network and University…
Janice TranbergCropLife Canada Agricultural biotechnology research and adoption is increasing. It is estimated that by 2015 there will be a three- to four-fold increase in the number of commercialized biotech products. Also increasing are the complications with international trade given the wide…
Amir HeimanThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Scholars believe that in order to increase the acceptance rate of GM food products that offer higher value relative to non-GM alternatives, marketers need to sell them at an introductory price, and only after consumers…
Aditya R. Khanal and Jeffrey GillespieLouisiana State University Agricultural Center Adoption and associated profitability of advanced breeding technologies are analyzed for US dairy farms. We account for correlation and selection associated with breeding technology adoption decisions. The bivariate probit model with selection…
Seth MeyerAgricultural Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsJulian Binfield and Wyatt ThompsonFood and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia The US Renewable Fuel Standard sets a lower bound on the amount of biofuels used, with…
John MiranowskiIowa State UniversityAlicia RosburgUniversity of Northern Iowa With rapid expansion of biofuel production, major concerns have arisen over higher food costs and competition between food, feed, and biofuel for energy-rich commodities. Most projections are based on short- and intermediate-term commodity price…
