International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR)

REGULATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY SECTOR
 

ENVIRONMENTAL RISK AND THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE: A BAYESIAN VIEW APPLIED TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS Iulie Aslaksen, Statistics Norway Bent Natvig, Department of Mathematics Inger Nordal, Department of Botany, University of Oslo, Norway. IDENTITY PRESERVED WHEAT MARKETING: AN IMPLICATION FOR NON-BIOTECH WHEAT EXPORTS Shida Rastegari Henneberry Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA FOOD SECURITY IN THE DOHA DEVELOPMENT ROUND Michael Blakeney Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London REGULATING AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW Hossein  Esmaeili School of Law, University of New England, Armidale, Australia BIOTECHNOLOGY AND TRADE-RELATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: ISSUES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES James D. Gaisford Department of Economics, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Jill E. Hobbs and William A. Kerr University of Saskatchewan, Canada ‘RISK ASSESSMENT IN ACTION’ - REVIEWING THE PRACTICE OF TOXICOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT OF GMO PRODUCTS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION Armin Spoek and Sandra Karner Inter-University Research Center for Technology, Work and Culture Graz Helmut Gaugitsch Federal Environment Agency, Vienna Heinz Hofer, Austrian Research Centres Seibersdorf Karin Kienzl-Plochberger, Petra Lehner free-lance researcher Vienna Susanne Stirn Department of Immunpathology, Vienna Rudolf Valenta, BIOGUM, Hamburg  TRANSGENIC CROP RISK ASSESSMENT POLICIES: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON Douglas Pachico CIAT: International Center for Tropical Agricultural, Cali, Colombia PATENT LAW’S INHERENT LIMITS Richard Gold Faculty of Law, McGill Universit, Montreal, Canada IDENTITY PRESERVED WHEAT MARKETING: AN IMPLICATION FOR NON-BIOTECH WHEAT EXPORTS Shida Rastegari Henneberry Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater,USA PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION AND RESTRUCTURING OF THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND MARKETING SYSTEM: GM AND IDENTITY PRESERVATION John A. Miranowski, Helen H. Jensen, and Ariun Ishdorj, Iowa State University, Iowa, USA PRODUCT STANDARDS IN AN OPEN ECONOMY: ROLE OF NATIONAL TREATMENT Devesh Roy University Of Maryland, MD, USA EFFECTS OF FOREIGN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS ON U.S. BILATERAL EXPORTS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY RELATED AGRICULTURAL INPUTS Suzanne L. W. Wisniewski, Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, USA

AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: CHALLENGES TO INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO PROTECT PLANT, ANIMAL AND HUMAN HEALTH Jimmye S. Hillman and George B. Frisvold Dept. of Agri.& Resource Econ., University of Arizona, USA SHAPING PATENT RIGHTS FOR PLANT INNOVATION Mark D. Janis University of Iowa College of Law, Jay P. Kesan University of Illinois College of Law, Illinois, USA WHY ARE US AND EU GMO REGULATIONS SUB-OPTIMAL? Kym Anderson and Lee Ann Jackson University of Adelaide, Australia THE REGULATION OF ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: AT THE CROSSROADS OF LAW AND ETHICS Lyne Létourneau  Research Centre on Reproductive Biology Laval University, Sainte-Foy, Québec A SEARCH FOR NEW MODELS OF REGULATION OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS Peter W.B. Phillips Managing Knowledge-based Agri-foo Development, University of Saskatchewan,  Canada , USA THE LIABILITIES FROM REGULATING GENE FLOW FROM PHARMACEUTICAL AND TRANSGENIC PLANTS Stuart Smyth, George Khachatourians and Peter W.B. Phillips University of Saskatchewan, CA THE ROLE OF RESEARCH NETWORKS IN CREATING AND MANAGING BIOTECHNOLOGY RELATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Peter W.B. Phillips Managing Knowledge-based Agri-food Development, University of Saskatchewan, Canada , USA CAN TRIPS DETER INNOVATION? THE ANTICOMMONS AND PUBLIC GOODS IN PLANT BREEDING Dwijen Rangnekar School of Public Policy, University College London,UK THE LABELING OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED PRODUCTS IN A GLOBAL TRADING ENVIRONMENT Stefania Scandizzo Studi Economici, Corporación Andina de Fomento BIOTECHNOLOGY, BIOSAFETY AND REGULATORY COSTS José Falck Zepeda, Joel Cohen,  John Komen International Service for National Agricultural Research, The Hague, The Netherlands A new strategy to develop biotechnology safely  in developing countries Luiz Antonio Barreto de Castro EMBRAPA/CENARGEN, Brazil CASE STUDIES IN REGULATORY COSTS FOR GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS IN INDIA Janet Carpenter US Agency for International Development, Washington, WA, USA HOW FOODS DERIVED FROM GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS ARE TESTED FOR SAFETY Andrew Cockburn Francesco Tencalla Monsanto Europe LABELING OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS: DOES IT REALLY PROVIDE CONSUMER CHOICE? Colin A. Carter, Y. Hossein Farzin and Guillaume P. Gruere Dept of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California Davis, CA

NEW PRODUCTS ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY ERA IN BIOTECHNOLOGY: EXPRESSION OF TRAITS FOR PLANT IMPROVEMENT AND PRODUCTION OF BIOPHARMACEUTICALS AND EDIBLE VACCINES IN TRANSGENIC CHLOROPLASTS Henry Daniell Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, University of Central Florida, U.S.A. CYNARA CARDUNCULUS L. AS A BIOMASS CROP FOR MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT: YIELDS AND APPLICATIONS Raccuia S.A., Melilli M.G., Cavallaro V., Tringali S. Istituto per i Sistemi Agricoli e Forestali del Mediterraneo,  CNR, Catania, Italy.  "STRATEGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOPHOSPHORUS FERTILIZER SYSTEMS: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN MOLECULAR GENETICS AND RHIZOSPHERE ECOLOGY." Alan H. Goldstein Biomedical Materials Engineering Science Program, Alfred University, N.Y., USA BIOTECH AND PLANTED TREES: SOME REGULATORY AND ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS Roger A. Sedjo Resources for the Future Washington, D.C  INNOVATION DISSEMINATION AND THE MARKET IMPACTS OF DROUGHT-TOLERANT GENETICALLY MODIFIED RICE Mamane Annou, Frank Fuller and Eric Wailes Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Arkansas, AR, USA THE POTENTIAL OF BIOMASS PRODUCTS FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE Liu-Hsiung Chuang Natural Resources Conservation Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., USA Burton C. English Department of Agricultural EconomicsUniversity of Tennessee,  USA THE USE OF TRANSGENIC PLANTS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF VACCINE PROTEINS: AN ECONOMICAL ALTERNATIVE Rigano M.M, Alvarez M.L., Pinkhasov J., Arntzen C.J. and Walmsley A. M. Department of Plant Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Sala F., Department of Biology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy THE BILLION DOLLAR BUG: A NEW, TRANSGENIC SOLUTION FOR MAIZE GROWERS Harvey Glick Monsanto

PUBLIC PERCEPTION ON BIOTECHNOLOGY

TAKEHOLDER ATTITUDES TOWARDS AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES – POLITICAL POLARIZATION AS A RESULT OF THE PRIVATE MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC TRUST Philipp Aerni ETH Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland CIVIL-SOCIETY PRESSURES AGAINST CROP BIOTECHNOLOGY AND IP REFORM: WHY ARE SOME GOVERNMENTS LISTENING? Kathleen McAfee Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven CT THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GMOS REGULATION IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES: TOWARDS A CONVERGENCE? Luciano Venturini Institute of Food Economics, Catholic University, Piacenza, Italy THE STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION OF PUBLIC POLICY TOWARD AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Anasuya  Chattopadhyay Theodore M. Horbulyk Department of Economics, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada TOWARDS BETTER PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF AG-BIOTECH PRACTICES IN EUROPE. CASE STUDY: A BOTTOM-UP AND MULTI-STAKEHOLDERS APPROACH LEADS TO MORE ACCEPTABLE SCENARIO’S FOR BETTER PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF AG-BIOTECH Ann Van Gysel and Philippe Jacobs VIB – Gent, Belgium

AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE MEDIA Johan F.M. Swinnen Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Jill McCluskey Washington State University, USA PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD AMERICANS KNOW NOT WHAT THEY EAT William K. Hallman, Adesoji O. Adeleja, Brain Schilling, Ferdaus Hossain, Benjamin Onyango, Helen Aquino Food Biotechnology Program,  Food Policy Institute Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,  New Brunswick, NJ BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GOVERNANCE: CAN”THINK TANKS” BE OF HELP? Knut Erik Solei Galina Gaivoronskaia Department of Political Science and Sociology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway IMPACT OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AND SCIENCE ON FOOD MARKET R.I. Zalewski and E. Skawińska Quality Management University of Poznaniu, Poland

ENVIRONMENT

PROCESS VERSUS PERFORMANCE STANDARDS: IMPLICATIONS OF EXTERNALITIES IN THE PRODUCTION OF GREEN PRODUCTS B. James Deaton Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards John P. Hoehn Department of Agricultural Economics Michigan State University BT COTTON, PESTICIDE USE, AND RESISTANCE DEVELOPMENT IN ARGENTINA Matin Qaim Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn,  Bonn, Germany. Alain de Janvry Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California Berkeley, , USA LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH HERBICIDE-TOLERANT SUGAR BEET IN EUROPE Richard Bennett Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, The University of Reading, UK Peter Carruthers, Peter Grey and Alison Strange Centre for Agricultural Strategy, The University of Reading, UK Richard Phipps Department of Agriculture, The University of Reading, UK EFFECTS OF REFUGES, RESISTANCE AND NATURAL ENEMIES ON PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PESTS IN BT-COTTON: AN ECOSYSTEM PERSPECTIVE Andrew Paul Gutierrez Center for Sustainable Development,  Berkeley, USA David Zilberman Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Berkeley, USA THE ENVIROPIG: A CASE STUDY OF THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY IN ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE J.P. Phillips, C.W. Forsberg, S. Golovan, A. Ajakaiye, M. Fan and R. Hacker University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada PESTICIDE OVERUSE AND BT COTTON – EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH AFRICA Bhavani Shankar Department of Agricultural & Food Economics, University of Reading, UK Colin Thirtle Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Imperial College of Science,  London, UK ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY CROP PROTECTION IN GM HERBICIDE-TOLERANT SUGAR BEET A. M. Dewar, L. A. Haylock,  B.H. Garner, R.J.N.Sands, P. Baker, M.J. Walker & M.J.May Broom’s Barn Research Station, Higham Bury St. Edmunds, UK A NEW APPROACH TO THE MANAGEMENT OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED HERBICIDE TOLERANT CROPS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT Alan M. Dewar, Mike J. May, Lisa A. Haylock, Gillian T. Champion, Beulah H. Garner, Richard J. Sands, Aiming Qi and John D. Pidgeon Broom’s Barn Research Station, Higham, Suffolk, UK Ian P. Woiwod Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, UK

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

PRICE DISCRIMINATION AND ACCESS TO IMPROVED TECHNOLOGY IN A PRIVATIZED WORLD Albert Acquaye and Greg Traxler Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Auburn University,  USA UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY RELATIONSHIPS AND THE PUBLIC GOOD: FRAMING THE ISSUES IN AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY David E. Ervin Environmental Sciences and Resources Program, Portland State University, OR Terri L. Lomax Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, OR Michael Rodemeyer Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, OR,USA FUTURE PIPELINE OF GMOS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION Klaus Menrad and Martina Menrad Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe, Germany THE DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS AND SPILLOVERS WITHIN AN AG-BIOTECH INDUSTRY Stavroula Malla, Kien Tran and Richard Gray University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada  THE CALIFORNIA SEED INDUSTRY: ORGANIZATION, ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, AND THE STRUCTURE OF R&D Matt A. Andersen and Leslie. J. Butler  Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California-Davis, CA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, BASIC SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, AND EDUCATION: SYNERGIES OR TRADEOFFS IN THE EXPANDED MISSION OF LAND GRANT UNIVERSITIES Jeremy D. Foltz and Bradford L. Barham Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison Kwansoo Kim Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Seoul National University,USA BIOTECHNOLOGY, MARKET FAILURES AND DYNAMIC UNCERTAINTY Odin K. Knudsen World Bank Pasquale L. Scandizzo Tor Vergata University, Rome

TECHNOLOGICAL. FINANCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS TO THE UPHOLD OF BIOTECHNOLOGY FIRMS IN BRAZIL Maria da Graça Fonseca Instituto def Economia- UFRJ  Federal University of Rio de Janeiro José Maria da Silveira Instituto def Economia, University of Campinas Sâo Paulo Maria Esther dal Poz IG UNICAMP, SP The Allocation of Agricultural Biotechnology Productivity Gains Between Farm and Farm Input Sectors Lilyan Fulginiti and Richard Perrin Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska, USA RESTRICTED MONOPOLY R&D PRICING: UNCERTAINTY, IRREVERSIBILITY, AND NON-MARKET EFFECTS Robert D. Weaver Agricultural Economics Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Justus Wesseler Environmental Economics and Natural Resources, Wageningen University, The Netherlands  WHO DO CONSUMERS TRUST FOR INFORMATION? THE CASE OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS Wallace E. Huffman, Matt Rousu, Jason Shogren, and Abe Tegene Department of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA  MARKET STRUCTURE, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND INNOVATION IN AGRICULTURE BIOTECHNOLOGY Sanjib Bhuyan, Anwar Naseem, Ferdaus Hossain and Carl Pray Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA BALANCING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ASPECTS OF AGRICULTURAL GENETIC RESOURCES M. Eric Van Dusen University of California at Berkeley, UK

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

THE COSTS TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OF NOT DOING BIOTECHNOLOGY Liborio S. Cabanilla, Tahirou Abdoulaye and John Sanders Agricultural Economics-Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA LEARNINGS FROM PUBLIC:PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR GM CROPS Adrian C Dubock Syngenta, Basel, Switzerland  BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION SYSTEM IN ESTONIA: DOES THE AGRO-FOOD SECTOR MATTER? Klaus Menrad Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe, Germany THE SHARING OF ARGICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY -- A BANGLADESH EXAMPLE Z.M.G. Sarwar Jahangir and Ronald A. Eckhardt College of Staten Island of The City University of New York ENCOURAGING TECHNICAL PROGRESS IN TROPICAL AGRICULTURE Alix Peterson Zwane University of California, Berkeley, USA Michael Kremer Harvard University, Brookings Institution National Bureau of Economic Research BIOTECHNOLOGY POTENTIAL IMPACT IN BRAZIL Elisio Contini Brazilian Agriculture Research Corporation - Embrapa and Coordinator of Labex - France Maria José Sampaio Brazilian Agriculture Research Corporation - Embrapa - Intellectual Property Office

BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR COMPETITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE FOR ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION: THE CASE OF ARMENIA Vahe Heboyan and Verne W. House USDA MAP & Agribusiness Teaching Center, Armenia  EXPERIENCE FROM FOUR COUNTRIE Wilfred A. Ongaro UN Economic Commission for Africa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia  IPR REGIME AND HEALTHCARE ACCESS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Carla Esposito and Giovanni Tria Department of Economy and Institutions, “Tor Vergata” University, Rome, Italy  RESEARCH PRIZES: A MECHANISM TO CREATE EFFECTIVE DEMAND FOR AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY IN AFRICA William A. Masters Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA  ADVANCING BIOTECHNOLOGY PUBLIC GOODS AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: RESULTS FROM THE NEXT HARVEST MEETING Joel Cohen, José Falck Zepeda and John Komen International Service for National Agricultural Research, The Hague, The Netherlands

ECONOMIC IMPACT

SUCCESS FACTORS, ISSUES AND PROSPECTS FOR GM CROPS IN THE USA: THE CASE OF THE ROUNDUP READY SOYBEAN Sylvie Bonny INRA, National Institute of Agricultural Research, GRIGNON, France HOW MUCH MORE WILL YOU PAY FOR YOUR MEAT: A MARKET IMPACT ANALYSIS OF THE NEW EUROPEAN GM FOOD AND FEED REGULATION Bruno Henry de Frahan and Christian Tritten Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique BIODIVERSITY VERSUS TRANSGENIC SUGAR BEET : THE ONE EURO QUESTION Matty DEMONT , Eric TOLLENS Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,  Belgium Justus WESSELER Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands  PRODUCTIVITY AND WELFARE: PROCESS VERSUS PRODUCT INNOVATION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY Lilyan Fulginiti and Richard Perrin Department of Agricultural Economics,  University of Nebraska OPPORTUNITIES FOR WEED MANIPULATION USING GMHT ROW CROPS M. J. May, G. T. Champion, A. Qi & A. M.  Dewar Broom’s Barn Research Station, Edmunds, Suffolk, UK THE DISTRIBUTION OF COSTS AND BENEFITS FROM THE COMMERCIAL INTRODUCTION OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS IN FINLAND: CASE STUDIES ON TURNIP RAPE AND POTATO IN FINLAND Jyrki Niemi , Saija Mäkelä & Jussi Tuomisto MTT Economic Research, Agrifood Research Finland, Helsinki, Finland  THREE YEARS OF TRANSGENIC COTTON IN AFRICA: WHAT ARE THE ECONOMIC GAINS? Yousouf Ismael and Richard Bennett Department of Agricultural and Food Economics. The University of Reading, UK Stephen Morse Department of Geography. The University of Reading, UK IMPROVED FARM PRODICTIVITY ABD FARM SUSTAINABILITY: HAS BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION DELIVERED ON ITS PROMISE? Harvey Glick Monsanto

THE FARM LEVEL IMPACT OF BT INSECT RESISTANT MAIZE IN SPAIN Graham Brookes Jasmine House, Elham, Canterbury, Kent, UK TRANSGENIC COTTON AND CROP PRODUCTIVITY: A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS FOR WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA Aziz Elbehri and Stephen McDonald Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington, D.C, USA Productivity Analysis of Bt cotton: a modelling approach based on a case study in shandong province, China Diemuth E. Pemsl, and Hermann Waibel University of Hannover, Germany Andrew P. Gutierrez University of California, Berkeley, United States  INTERNATIONAL IMPACTS OF BT COTTON ADOPTION G. B. Frisvold Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Arizona, USA J.M. Reeves Agricultural Research Division, Cotton Incorporated, NC, USA GM AND POLLUTING INPUTS IN SOUTH AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION: A NON-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL INPUT REDUCTION Lindie Beyers and Marnus Gouse Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension & Rural Development, University of Pretoria David Hadley School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham Jenifer Piesse Management Centre, King’s College London Colin Thirtle Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Imperial College London, UK THE IMPACT OF A CHANGE IN DEMAND ON THE ESTIMATION OF THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS FROM AGRICULTURAL R & D Simbo Olubobokun Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Peter W. B. Phillips Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Is the public prepared for the “next generation” of AgBiotech? ARIEH MAOZ Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development Chief Scientist Office & National Committee for Transgenic Plants Bet-Dagan , Israel

ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS IN FARM ANIMAL NUTRITION A. Baldi, F. Cheli, L. Rossi, E. Fusi, R. Rebucci, L. Sangalli, C. Pecorini, S. Raggi1, C. Fogher2 Department of Veterinary Science and Technology for Food Safety, University of Milan, Italy Botanic and Genetic Institute, U.C.S.C., 29100 - Piacenza, Italy AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, CONSUMER HEALTH CONCERNS, AND ADVERTISING ON FARM MARKETS AND STRUCTURE; A PRE-APPROVAL EVALUATION OF RBST IN JAPAN Junko Kinoshita Policy Research Institute, Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Tokyo, JP Nobuhiro Suzuki Department of Agricultural Economics at Kyushu University in Japan Harry M. Kaiser Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, U.S.

GROWTH HORMONES AND THE U.S. DAIRY INDUSTRY: THE EMERGING CHARACTERISTICS OF A MATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY MARKET Leslie. J. Butler Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California-Davis  APPLICATION OF DNA-BASED TECHNOLOGIES IN FEEDSTUFFS AUTHENTICATION Moretti V.M., Baldi A., Pinotti L., Bellagamba F., Campagnoli A.,  Savoini G., Cantoni C. Dell’Orto V. Department of Veterinary Science and Technology for Food Safety, University of Milan, Italy.

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