Potential poverty traps among the rural poor suggest a need to reduce poor farmers?vulnerability by stabilizing crop … yields and limiting yield losses. Advances in biotechnology will help address this need directly with crops that tolerate … higher moment changes in payoff distributions. Farmer traits such as wealth and risk exposure affect their valuation of these …

with the aid of modern biotechnology. This bulletin presents empirical evidence on consumers' willingness to pay for … biotech foods based on the presence or absence of labels advising that the food was prepared with the aid of biotechnology …

production risk and may therefore reduce farmer demand for on-farm varietal diversity, especially when only a few transgenic …