Agricultural Biotechnology: Competitiveness through Multi-State Collaboration

Biotechnology of Agricultural Wastes Recycling Through Controlled Cultivation of Mushrooms

[Agricultural biotechnology safety assessment].

Genetically modified (GM) crops were first introduced to farmers in 1995 with the intent to provide better crop yield and meet the increasing demand for food and feed. GM crops have evolved to include a thorough safety evaluation for their use in human food and animal feed. Safety considerations begin at the level of DNA whereby the inserted GM DNA is evaluated for its content, position and sta...

Popular misconceptions: agricultural biotechnology.

Agricultural biotechnology, especially genetic engineering or genetic modification (GM), is a topic of considerable controversy worldwide. The public debate is fraught with polarized views and opinions, some are held with religious zeal. Unfortunately, it is also marked with much ignorance and misinformation. Here we explore some popular misconceptions encountered in the public debate.

Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment

individuals’ adult labor productivity-to the long-run prevention of famine is somewhat underemphasized. This underemphasis may feed economists’ unfortunate propensity to treat nutritional status solely as an outcome, not as a state variable influencing future productivity and welfare. Chapter 7, on individual households’ natural preventive and responsive behaviors in the face of varying degrees...

Agricultural Biotechnology and Industry Structure

_________________________________________________ 1 Murray Fulton is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. Konstantinos Giannakas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This is University of Nebraska-Lincoln Agricultural Research Division Article No. 13269. The a...