| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Traits and techniques of GMOs / Gerald C. Nelson -- The economics of technology adoption / Gerald C. Nelson and David Bullock -- GMO adoption and private cost savings : GR soybeans and Bt corn / David Bullock and Elisavet I. Nitsi -- Simulation of world market effects : the 2010 world market with and without Bt corn and GR soybeans / Mark W. Rosegrant -- Cotton GMO adoption and private profitability / José Benjamin Falck-Zepeda, Greg Traxler and Robert G. Nelson -- GMO adoption and nonmarket effects / Gerald C. Nelson and Alessandro De Pinto -- The stakeholders and the struggle for public opinion, regulatory control and market development / Julie Babinard and Timothy Josling -- The domestic and regional regulatory environment / Gerald C. Nelson, Julie Babinard and Timothy Josling -- International institutions, world trade rules, and GMOs / Timothy Josling -- Market responses to consumer demand and regulatory change / Laurian Unnevehr, Lowell Hill and Carrie Cunningham -- Looking to the future / Timothy Josling and Gerald C. Nelson -- Biotechnology crops, a producer's perspective / Mark W. Jenner -- Genetically modified crops and the American agricultural producer / Gary Goldberg -- Toward common ground : roles of markets and policy / Nicole Ballenger and Mary Bohman -- The economics of agricultural biotechnology : differences and similarities in the US and the EU / Tassos Haniotis -- Modern agricultural biotechnology and developing country food security / Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Marc J. Cohen -- GMOs : a miracle? / Van dana Shiva -- GMOs in agriculture : an environmentalist perspective / Richard Caplan -- Genetically modified organisms can help save the planet / Dennis T. Avery -- Genetic engineering : a technology ahead of the science and public policy? / Dennis J. Kucinich -- Food industry perspective on safety and labeling of biotechnology / Gene Grabowski -- GMO regulations: food safety or trade barrier? / Malcolm Kane -- Genetically engineered food : make sure it's safe and label it / Michael Hansen -- Ag biotech : our past and our future / Roger Krueger -- A short history of agricultural biotechnology / Julie Babinard -- Plant genetic modification technologies / Jack M. Widholm -- Bt corn and the monarch butterfly : research update / Richard L. Hellmich and Blair D. Siegfried -- The beef hormone dispute between the United States and the EU / Timothy Josling and Donna Roberts. |
| Summary |
Genetically modified crops have become a topic of great interest among scientists, regulators, consumers, farmers, and politicians. This title provides an overview of the subject, and looks at the costs and benefits of GMO products. It reviews the scientific, economic, and political issues relating to the use of agricultural GMOs. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Food -- Biotechnology -- Economic aspects.
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Food -- Biotechnology -- Economic aspects. |
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Genetically modified foods -- Economic aspects.
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Genetically modified foods. |
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Food supply -- Government policy.
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Food supply -- Government policy. |
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Food supply. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Nelson, Gerald C.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Genetically modified organisms in agriculture. San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, ©2001 0125154224 9780125154222 (DLC) 00110183 (OCoLC)46912687 |
| ISBN |
9780080488868 (electronic book) |
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0080488862 (electronic book) |
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9780125154222 |
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0125154224 |
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