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Genetically Modified Food and Global Welfare
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

Genetically Modified Food and Global Welfare

This volume brings together fresh insights from top agricultural economists in the areas of consumer attitudes, environmental impacts, policy and regulation, trade, investment, food security, and development, in an attempt to provide a new perspective on the most pressing policy questions facing GM technology.

Genetically Modified Organisms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

Genetically Modified Organisms

Due to an intricate web of psychological, socio-political and economic factors, an alliance of ill-advised forces of radical activism and powerful commercial interests encourage the rejection of so-called “genetically modified organisms” (GMOs), that is agri-food products whose DNA has been directly retouched, or “recombined” (rDNA). While the pseudo-concept has no scientific meaning, the opponents of the agro-industry insist on attacking it as an alleged symbol of the exploitation of nature for greed and profit: this socio-political struggle, in itself legitimate, but directed at the wrong target, fosters doubts and fears about the supposed negative effects of GMOs on the environmen...

Food Identity Preservation and Traceability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 688

Food Identity Preservation and Traceability

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-10-19
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

A Practical Roadmap to IPT IntegrationFrom baby formula and peanut butter, to E. coli-tainted peppers and salmonella-tainted pistachios, no food product or means of its production is immune to risks. And while these risks may never be fully eliminated, identity preservation and traceability (IPT) systems make it easier to determine the source and e

An innovation systems approach to enhanced farmer adoption of climate-ready germplasm and agronomic practices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 30

An innovation systems approach to enhanced farmer adoption of climate-ready germplasm and agronomic practices

By 2050, climate change is likely to reduce maize production globally by 3–10 percent and wheat production in developing countries by 29–34 percent. Even without climate change, the real costs of wheat and maize will increase by 60 percent between 2000 and 2050; climate change could make the figure substantially greater. Food security, despite the above, may be possible if agricultural systems are transformed through improved seed, fertilizer, land use, and governance.

Agricultural Biotechnology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Agricultural Biotechnology

The book is a comprehensive reference work on agricultural biotechnology. It brings together the principles and contemporary agricultural biotechnology. Topics such as history and scope of agricultural biotechnology, plant tissues culture, techniques of genetic modification, crop improvement, production of transgenic crops etc. are dealt with comprehensively. Modern biotechnology has great potential to influence and benefit agriculture. Highly useful publication for agriculture scientists, biotechnologists.