International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR)

REGULATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY SECTOR
 

Tree Biotech Regulatory and Economic Issues Roger A. Sedjo, Resources for the future, Washington DC 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. PRIVATIZED PROVISION OF ESSENTIAL PLANT BREEDING INFRASTRUCTURE Bob Lindner, Canola Breeders Western Australia TRANSGENIC CROP RISK ASSESSMENT POLICIES: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON Douglas Pachico CIAT: International Center for Tropical Agricultural, Cali, Colombia REGULATING AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW Hossein  Esmaeili School of Law, University of New England, Armidale, Australia ‘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 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 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 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

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 THE LABELING OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED PRODUCTS IN A GLOBAL TRADING ENVIRONMENT Stefania Scandizzo Studi Economici, Corporación Andina de Fomento PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION AND RESTRUCTURING OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS: NON-GM AND SPECIALTY CORN AND SOYBEAN CROPS IN IOWA John A. Miranowski, Helen H. Jensen, and Ariun Ishdorj, Iowa State University, Iowa, USA THE CHALLENGE OF CREATING, PROTECTING AND EXPLOITING NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE Peter W.B. Phillips Managing Knowledge-based Agri-food Development, University of Saskatchewan, Canada , USA BIOTECHNOLOGY, BIOSAFETY AND REGULATORY COSTS José Falck Zepeda, Joel Cohen,  John Komen International Service for National Agricultural Research, The Hague, The Netherlands INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND U.S. BILATERAL EXPORTS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY RELATED AGRICULTURAL INPUT Suzanne L. W. Wisniewski, Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, USA THE LIABILITIES FROM REGULATING GENE FLOW IN PLANT MADE PHARMACEUTICALS Stuart Smyth, George Khachatourians and Peter W.B. Phillips University of Saskatchewan, CA THE REACH OF PATENT LAW AND INSTITUTIONAL COMPETENCE 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 THE FARMER'S VALUE OF TRANSGENIC CROPS UNDER EX ANTE REGULATION AND EX POST LIABILITY Wesseler Justus, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

NEW PRODUCTS 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.  TRANSGENIC PLANTS FOR PRODUCING VACCINE ANTIGENS: 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 POTENTIAL FOR AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE P FERTILIZER SYSTEMS: GENETIC RESOURCES AWAIT A PUBLIC POLICY TO ENCOURAGE RESTRUCTURING OF THE EXISTING CHEMICAL FERTILIZER INDUSTRY Alan H. Goldstein Biomedical Materials Engineering Science Program, Alfred University, N.Y., USA

PUBLIC PERCEPTION

STAKEHOLDER 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 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 PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON 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 Solem 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

PRODUCTION EXTERNALITIES IN CONTEMPORARY AGRICULTURE: PROCESS VERSUS PRODUCT STANDARDS AS THE BASIS FOR “ORGANIC” 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 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 GM CROP MANAGEMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT John D. Pidgeon, Alan M. Dewar, Mike J. May, Lisa A. Haylock, Gillian T. Champion, Beulah H. Garner, Richard J. Sands, Aiming Qi, Broom’s Barn Research Station, Higham, Suffolk, UK Ian P. Woiwod Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, UK  HOW FOODS DERIVED FROM GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS ARE TESTED FOR SAFETY A. Cockburn - F. Tencalla, Monsanto Europe THE BILLION DOLLAR BUG: A NEW, TRANSENIC SOLUTION FOR MAIZE GROWERS Glick, Monsanto

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 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 SYNERGIES OR TRADEOFFS IN UNIVERSITY LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH 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 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  APPLICATION OF DNA-BASED TECHNOLOGIES IN FEEDSTUFFS AUTHENTICATION Moretti V.M., Baldi A., Pinotti L., Bellagamba F., Campagnoli A., Savoini G., Cantoni C. and Dell'Orto V., Department of Veterinary Science and Technology for Food Safety, University of Milan, Italy THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GMOS REGULATION IN THE EU AND THE US: TOWARDS A CONVERGENCE? Venturini Luciano, Catholic University, Piacenza, Institute of Food Economics, Italy

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

ECONOMIC COST OF NON ADOPTION OF BT COTTON IN WEST AFRICA:WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MALI 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  ENCOURAGING PRIVATE SECTOR RESEARCH FOR TROPICAL AGRICOLTURE Alix Peterson Zwane University of California, Berkeley, USA Michael Kremer Harvard University, Brookings Institution National Bureau of Economic Research GM PLANTS & BIOSAFETY REGULATIONS:POTENTIAL IMPACT ON RESEARCH AND AGRIBUSINESS 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

AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOSAFETY IN AFRICA: EXPERIENCE FROM FOUR COUNTRIES Wilfred A. Ongaro UN Economic Commission for Africa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia  IPRs AND HEALTHCARE ACCESS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: POLICY ISSUES Carla Esposito and Giovanni Tria Department of Economy and Institutions, “Tor Vergata” University, Rome, Italy  RESEARCH PRIZES: A MECHANISM FOR INNOVATION IN AFRICAN AGRICOLTURE 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 BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION SYSTEM IN ESTONIA: DOES THE AGRO-FOOD SECTOR MATTER? Klaus Menrad, Fraunhofer Institute for Sistems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe, Germany

ECONOMIC IMPACT

SUCCESS FACTORS, ISSUES AND PROSPECTS FOR THE FIRST GM CROPS : THE CASE OF ROUNDUP READY SOYBEAN IN THE USA Sylvie Bonny INRA, National Institute of Agricultural Research, GRIGNON, France HOW MUCH MORE WILL YOU PAY FOR YOUR "GM-FREE" 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  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: A CASE STUDY ON POTATO IN FINLAND Jyrki Niemi , Saija Mäkelä & Jussi Tuomisto MTT Economic Research, Agrifood Research Finland, Helsinki, Finland  THE BENEFITS OF COTTON TO SMALL SCALE PRODUCERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES- THE CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA 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

THE FARM LEVEL IMPACT OF USING BT MAIZE IN SPAIN Graham Brookes Jasmine House, Elham, Canterbury, Kent, UK Productivity Analysis of Bt cotton: a modelling approach 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 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 CONSUMER RESPONSE TO A BRANDED NON-GMO FOOD PRODUCT: AWARENESS OF LABEL, AND IMPACT OF PRICE ON PURCHASE INTEREST Darl Baumgardner Marianne McGarry Wolf California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California, USA CONTINGENT VALUATION OF THE WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR SELECTED GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS Naoya Kaneko and Wen S. Chern Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics The Ohio State University

ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS FOR THE NUTRITION OF FARM ANIMALS 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 AND CONSUMER HEALTH CONCERNS, 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

CONSUMERS ACCEPTANCE