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, and explore the potential of biotechnology as a means to achieve self-sufficiency through improvements in agricultural … also significant, and likely beyond the current potential of biotechnology. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights …
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sectors. As most of the basic biotechnology tools available to date are patented by private companies in the North, which …
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Advancement in biotechnology requires continued innovative activity by firms. To grow, biotechnology firms must … development of policies promoting one's biotechnology sector. This study explores factors which determine innovative activity … within the Canadian biotechnology industry. Innovative activity is measured as the natural log of the number of products …
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Herbicide-resistant (HR) rice technology is a potential tool for control of red rice in commercial rice production. Using an ex ante mathematical programming framework, this research presents an empirical analysis of HR rice technology adoption under uncertainty. The analysis accounts for...
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The agricultural biotechnology industry has evolved from a focus on outstanding science to a more mature phase where …
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There is a growing body of literature on the safe use of biotechnology and the need for an international biosafety … protocol and national regulations to facilitate the safe development and transfer of biotechnology. Most of these studies … biotechnology, with special emphasis on implications for developing countries who are under increasing pressure to put a biosafety …
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, industry concentration, and balancing money and the Land Grant mission are issues LGCUs currently face. The ag-biotechnology …. Keywords: Biotechnology, Land Grant Mission, Research …
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This paper provides an overview of the historical and cultural factors that have contributed to divergent U.S. and European views on GMOs, and to resulting different national regulatory approaches for these products, specifically labelling policy. Within the context of the international trading...
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, and so DuPont works with end users, elevators, farmers, and seed companies to create market channels. As biotechnology …
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Do transgenic crops cause agrobiodiversity erosion? We hypothesize that they increase productivity and reduce production risk and may therefore reduce farmer demand for on-farm varietal diversity, especially when only a few transgenic varieties are available. We also hypothesize that varietal...
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