The Market Potential of a New High-Oleic Soybean: An Ex Ante Analysis

The Market Potential of a New High-Oleic Soybean: An Ex Ante Analysis

Konstantinos Giannakas and Amalia YiannakaUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln This paper develops a model of heterogeneous consumer preferences to analyze the market potential of a second-generation, genetically modified, high-oleic soybean developed at the University of Nebraska. The paper identifies the factors that will determine…

Objective and Subjective Knowledge: Impacts on Consumer Demand for Genetically Modified Foods in the United States and the European Union

Objective and Subjective Knowledge: Impacts on Consumer Demand for Genetically Modified Foods in the United States and the European Union

Lisa HouseDepartment of Food and Resource Economics, University of FloridaJayson LuskDepartment of Agricultural Economics, Purdue UniversitySara JaegerDepartment of Marketing, University of AucklandW. Bruce TraillDepartment of Agricultural and Food Economics, University of ReadingMelissa MooreDepartment of Marketing, Quantitative Analysis and Business Law, Mississippi State…

Can Chinese Consumers Be Persuaded? The Case of Genetically Modified Vegetable Oil

Can Chinese Consumers Be Persuaded? The Case of Genetically Modified Vegetable Oil

Wuyang Hu and Kevin ChenDepartment of Rural Economy, University of Alberta, Edmonton This paper investigates consumers’ purchase intentions of vegetable oil that is made from genetically modified oilseeds (referred to as GM vegetable oil) in Beijing, China. It is found that consumers’…

Fear and Hope over the Third Generation of Agricultural Biotechnology: Analysis of Public Response in the Federal Register

Fear and Hope over the Third Generation of Agricultural Biotechnology: Analysis of Public Response in the Federal Register

Patrick A. Stewart and William McLeanArkansas State University The third generation of agricultural biotechnology looms large as plant-made pharmaceuticals (PMPs) and plant-made industrial products (PMIPs) both promise new, cheaper, and more plentiful pharmaceutical drugs and industrial products, such as plastics, cosmetics, enzymes,…

Europe on Transgenic Crops: How Public Plant Breeding and Eco-Transgenics Can Help in the Transatlantic Debate

Europe on Transgenic Crops: How Public Plant Breeding and Eco-Transgenics Can Help in the Transatlantic Debate

Ann Marie ThroCooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), USDA Although a range of views about transgenic crops is found in both the United States and Europe, some aspects that are particularly characteristic of European views are seldom mentioned in the…