Climate Change for Biotechnology? UK Public Opinion 1991–2002

Climate Change for Biotechnology? UK Public Opinion 1991–2002

George GaskellProfessor of Social Psychology and Associate Director BIOS (The Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine and Society), London School of EconomicsNick AllumLecturer in Quantitative Sociology, University of SurreyMartin BauerSenior Lecturer in Social Psychology, London School of EconomicsJonathan JacksonLecturer in Research…

Research Prizes: A Mechanism to Reward Agricultural Innovation in Low-Income Regions

Research Prizes: A Mechanism to Reward Agricultural Innovation in Low-Income Regions

William A. MastersDepartment of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University; The Earth Institute, Columbia University This paper identifies market failures that limit biotechnology research for farmers in low-income regions and proposes a sys- tem of cash prizes to reward the dissemination of successful innovations….

Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods: Does it Really Provide Consumer Choice?

Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods: Does it Really Provide Consumer Choice?

Colin A. Carter and Guillaume P. GruèreDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis The mandatory labeling of genetically modified (GM) food aims to provide consumer choice. However, in the European Union and elsewhere, GM food with mandatory labeling has…

Development and Marketing Strategies for Functional Foods

Development and Marketing Strategies for Functional Foods

Cecilia Mark-HerbertSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala As the boundaries between food and medicine are fading, businesses face new challenges. These challenges include integrating research and development and marketing processes that shorten the time to market a new product. A “market pull”…

Factors Affecting the Likelihood of Corn Rootworm Bt Seed Adoption

Factors Affecting the Likelihood of Corn Rootworm Bt Seed Adoption

James Payne, Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo, and Stan DaberkowEconomic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture The likelihood of adopting corn rootworm (CRW) Bt seed technology was analyzed using an ordered logit model. Data used to estimate the model came from United States Department…