Benefits, drawbacks, and tradeoffs are outlined for three biotech food policy alternatives. Approach 1 focuses on "Letting Science and Enterprise Guide Our Food System." Approach 2 focuses on "Safety First: Protect Our Health and Environment." Approach 3 focuses on "Encoruaging Multiple Food...

This Preliminary Assessment represents a response to an important and timely request for information from the Governor’s Strategic Planning Council. This report represents a limited response based on findings and principles from existing applied studies, academic literature, and input from a...

Many issues and some myths are drivers of change in the emerging transition to a bioeconomy.   This working paper focuses on two of the key drivers in much of the discussion and they are not likely to disappear from the agenda anytime soon. First is the broad based national priority for...

 There are many issues and some myths that are drivers of change in this transition. World hunger, biotechnology, food versus fuel, and indirect land use; organic, natural, local foods, obesity, nutrition, and food safety; housing, healthcare, credit institutions, and economic recovery; and...

 As the national debate over health care reform continues, consideration is increasingly being given to the use of consumer-focused health care cooperatives as a key strategy for providing access to affordable health care and insurance for the millions of consumers and small businesses not...

 This working paper employs an alternatives an consequences approach to evaluate some of the potential consequences of using computer simulation models to estimate indirect land use for the purposes of regulating production of biofuels. 

Comments to USDA Rural Development Agency regarding the development of administrative rules for the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill as submitted during USDA Listening MeetingRoom 107-A Whitten Building, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 12th and...