Genetically modified (GM) (or transgenic) crops are produced using plant biotechnology to select desirable characteristics in plants and transfer genes from one organism to another. As a result, crops can survive under harsher conditions, costs are lowered, chemical application is reduced, and...

This book addresses the important issue of food prices across EU Member States. Although recent attention has focused on events in world commodity markets following the spikes in world prices in 2007-2008 and 2011, there has been comparatively little attention addressing food price dynamics at...

This paper is concerned with the impact of food scares, principally the BSE crisis, in the UK and focuses on price adjustment at different stages in a vertically-related market. Our interest is motivated primarily by the presence of market power that is alleged to occur in UK food retailing....