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Recent globalisation has been characterised by a decline in costs of cross-border trade in farm and other products. It has been driven primarily by the information and communication technology revolution and – in the case of farm products – by reductions in governmental distortions to...
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AustraliaÂ’s lacklustre economic growth performance in the first four decades following World War II was in part due to an anti-trade, anti-primary sector bias in government assistance policies. This paper provides new annual estimates of the extent of those biases since 1946 and their...
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For decades, earnings from farming in many low-income countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduce national and global economic...
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A common-agency lobbying model is developed to help understand why North America and the European Union have adopted such different policies towards genetically modified food. Our results show that when firms (in this case farmers) lobby policy makers to influence standards and consumers and...
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How much might the potential economic benefit from a farm productivity boost associated with crop biotechnology adoption by Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) be offset by a loss of market access abroad for crops that may contain genetically modified (GM) organisms? This paper uses the global GTAP...
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A global economy-wide model (GTAP) is used to go beyond estimating how GM crop variety adoption affects adopting and non-adopting economies, with or without policy responses to this technology, by indicating effects also on real incomes of farmers. The results suggest the EU moratorium on...
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from golden rice, and that – contrary to the claims of numerous interests – those estimated benefits are diminished only … impose bans on GM crop imports in an attempt to maintain access to EU markets for non-GM products, the loss to domestic …
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effects of adopting both types of innovation in Asia, including its impact on rice producers and other poor households. It … considerable farm productivity gains (even if extended beyond GM rice to include those from adopting other GM grains and oilseeds …) could be exceeded by the welfare gains resulting from the potential health-enhancing attributes of golden rice, which would …
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also depend on existing (non-GMOspecific) agricultural policies in affected markets. This paper uses a well …
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also on breeding for attributes desired by consumers. Although not yet commercially available, a new variety of rice, known … current commercial applications of biotech crops, this new rice variety aims directly at benefiting consumers rather than … producers. More specifically, it aims at improving the health of poor people in developing countries who rely on rice as their …
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