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Genetically modified organisms in agriculture : economics and politics
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- Creator
- edited by Gerald C. Nelson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, [2001]
- ©2001
- Physical Details
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- xii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9786611052713, 0080488862, 9780125154222, 128105271X, 0125154224, 9780080488868
- OCLC
- ocn146606388, ocn476056928, ocm46912687
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword / Robert W. Herdt -- Pt. 1. Analysis of Current GMO Benefits and Costs. 1. Introduction / Gerald C. Nelson. 2. Traits and Techniques of GMOs / Gerald C. Nelson. 3. The Economics of Technology Adoption / Gerald C. Nelson and David Bullock. 4. GMO Adoption and Private Cost Savings: GR Soybeans and Bt Corn / David Bullock and Elisavet I. Nitsi. 5. Simulation of World Market Effects: The 2010 World Market With and Without Bt Corn and GR Soybeans / Mark W. Rosegrant. 6. Cotton GMO Adoption and Private Profitability / Jose Benjamin Falck-Zepeda, Greg Traxler and Robert G. Nelson. 7. GMO Adoption and Nonmarket Effects / Gerald C. Nelson and Alessandro De Pinto. 8. The Stakeholders and the Struggle for Public Opinion, Regulatory Control and Market Development / Julie Babinard and Timothy Josling. 9. The Domestic and Regional Regulatory Environment / Gerald C. Nelson, Julie Babinard and Timothy Josling. 10. International Institutions, World Trade Rules, and GMOs / Timothy Josling. 11. Market Responses to Consumer Demand and Regulatory Change / Laurian Unnevehr, Lowell Hill and Carrie Cunningham. 12. Looking to the Future / Timothy Josling and Gerald C. Nelson -- Pt. 2. Perspectives on the Controversies. 13. Biotechnology Crops - A Producer's Perspective / Mark W. Jenner. 14. Genetically Modified Crops and the American Agricultural Producer / Gary Goldberg. 15. Toward Common Ground: Roles of Markets and Policy / Nicole Ballenger and Mary Bohman. 16. The Economics of Agricultural Biotechnology: Differences and Similarities in the US and the EU / Tassos Haniotis. 17. Modern Agricultural Biotechnology and Developing Country Food Security / Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Marc J. Cohen. 18. GMOs: A Miracle? / Vandana Shiva. 19. GMOs in Agriculture: An Environmental Perspective / Richard Caplan. 20. Genetically Modified Organisms Can Help Save the Planet / Dennis Avery. 21. Genetic Engineering: A Technology Ahead of the Science and Public Policy? / An Extract Reprinted from the US Congressional Record of November 1 and November 2, 2000. 22. Food Industry Perspective on Safety and Labeling of Biotechnology / Gene Grabowski. 23. GMO Regulations: Food Safety or Trade Barrier? / Malcom Kane. 24. Genetically Engineered Food: Make Sure It's Safe and Label It / Michael Hansen. 25. Ag Biotech: Our Past and Our Future / Roger Krueger -- Pt. 3. Special Topics. 26. A Short History of Agricultural Biotechnology / Julie Babinard. 27. Plant Genetic Modification Technologies / Jack Widholm. 28. Bt Corn and the Monarch Butterfly: Research Update / Richard L. Hellmich and Blair D. Siegfried. 29. The Beef Hormone Dispute Between the United States and the EU / Timothy Josling and Donna Roberts -- Agricultural Biotech Glossary -- GMO Field Trials in Europe