George B. FrisvoldUniversity of Arizona.Jeanne M. ReevesCotton Incorporated.Russell TronstadUniversity of Arizona. Many studies report that Bt cotton has led to significant yield gains, reduced insecticide use, or both in different countries. With rare exception, these studies examine adoption in one region in…
Loren W. TauerCornell University. New York dairy farm data over the years 1994–2002 were used to estimate the impact of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) use on the cost of producing a hundredweight of milk. Both fixed and random effects models were estimated….
Konstantinos Giannakas and Amalia YiannakaUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln. The National Organic Program, introduced in 2002, has explicitly linked the markets for organic and genetically modified (GM) products through the provision that organic-labeled food should be free of GM ingredients. This paper models the…
Deepthi Elizabeth Kolady and William LesserCornell University. The public-private partnership involved in the development of Bt eggplant in India is unique in the context of developing countries, where poor farmers’ access to technology is limited. The key questions arising in this context…
Jonathan Nevitt, Bradford F. Mills, Dixie W. Reaves, and George W. NortonVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. A telephone survey of United States consumers’ views on tobacco biopharming indicates widespread support for developing the technology when it generates a socially beneficial application….
Augustine S. LangyintuoInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Zimbabwe.Jess Lowenberg-DeBoerPurdue University. This paper used a spatial and temporal price equilibrium model to assess the potential impacts of farmers in West and Central Africa adopting Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.)…
Andrew J. KnightMichigan State University. Whereas most research on public perceptions of genetically modified products have focused on first-generation biotechnologies and genetically modified foods, this paper examines public support for a variety of animal and plant agricultural biotechnology applications and explores whether…
