Can Technology Transfer Help Public-Sector Researchers Do More with Less? The Case of the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service

Can Technology Transfer Help Public-Sector Researchers Do More with Less? The Case of the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service

Kelly Day Rubenstein and Paul W. HeiseyUnited States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. Private funding for agricultural research now exceeds that of the public sector. Other changes have included policies to make greater use of technology transfer mechanisms, such as patents…

Second-Generation GMOs: Where to from Here?

Second-Generation GMOs: Where to from Here?

Kenrett Y. Jefferson-MooreDepartment of Agribusiness, Applied Economics & Agriscience Education, North Carolina A&T State University.Greg TraxlerAgricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University. The driving force behind the growth of the agricultural biotechnology industry is the potential to increase efficiency in the production…

Bt Corn Farmer Compliance with Insect Resistance Management Requirements in Minnesota and Wisconsin

Bt Corn Farmer Compliance with Insect Resistance Management Requirements in Minnesota and Wisconsin

Jessica GoldbergerProgram on Agricultural Technology Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.Jeanne MerrillMichael Fields Agricultural Institute.Terrance HurleyDepartment of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reregistered Bt corn in 2001 with mandatory insect resistance management (IRM) requirements in order to…

Perceptions of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Cotton Varieties: A Case Study of the Cotton Industry in Gujarat, India

Perceptions of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Cotton Varieties: A Case Study of the Cotton Industry in Gujarat, India

Uma KambhampatiDepartment of Economics, University of Reading, UK.Stephen MorseDepartment of Geography, University of Reading, UK.Richard BennettDepartment of Agricultural and Food Economics, University ofReading, UK.Yousouf IsmaelDepartment of Agricultural and Food Economics, University ofReading, UK. The paper reports the findings of a study designed…

Technology Fees Versus GURTs in the Presence of Spillovers: World Welfare Impacts

Technology Fees Versus GURTs in the Presence of Spillovers: World Welfare Impacts

Sergio H. Lence and Dermot J. HayesDepartment of Economics, Iowa State University. A two-country extension of an ex ante simulation model of research and development (R&D) in agriculture developed by Lence, Hayes, McCunn, Smith, and Niebur (2005) is used to analyze issues…

GM Crops: The Global Economic and Environmental Impact—The First Nine Years 1996–2004

GM Crops: The Global Economic and Environmental Impact—The First Nine Years 1996–2004

Graham Brookes and Peter BarfootPG Economics Ltd., Dorchester, UK. 2005 represents the tenth planting season since genetically modified (GM) crops were first grown in 1996. This milestone provides the opportunity to critically assess the impact this technology is having on global agriculture….