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