The Coexistence of Genetically Modified, Organic and Conventional Foods
Government Policies and Market Practices
Editors: Kalaitzandonakes, N., Phillips, P.W.B., Wesseler, J., Smyth, S.J. (Eds.)
Free Preview- Examines national and international supply chains and develops a conceptual framework for examining the proper roles of governments and markets
- Provides a general framework for analyzing current and future economic, legal, and technical issues in coexistence
- Explores the potential impacts of regulatory asynchronicity around the world, the associated potential trade disruptions and the potential policy solutions
- Examines the crucial differences in coexistence policies between the EU, United States, Canada, Australia, the BRIC countries and selected developing countries
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Since their commercial introduction in 1996, genetically modified (GM) crops have been adopted by farmers around the world at impressive rates. In 2011, 180 million hectares of GM crops were cultivated by more than 15 million farmers in 29 countries. In the next decade, global adoption is expected to grow even faster as the research pipeline for new biotech traits and crops has increased almost fourfold in the last few years. The adoption of GM crops has led to increased productivity, while reducing pesticide use and the emissions of agricultural greenhouse gases, leading to broadly distributed economic benefits across the global food supply chain. Despite the rapid uptake of GM crops, the various social and economic benefits as well as the expanding rate innovation, the use of GM crops remains controversial in parts of the world. Despite the emergence of coexistence between GM, organic and conventional crops as a key policy and practical issue of global scale, there is no coherent literature that addresses it directly. Governments and market stakeholders in many countries are grappling with policy alternatives that settle conflicting property rights, minimize negative market externalities and associated liabilities, maximize the economic benefits of innovation and allow producer and consumer choice. This book intends to fill these needs with contributions from the top theoreticians, legal and economic analysts, policy makers and industry practitioners in the field. As the economics and policy of coexistence start to emerge as an separate subfield in agricultural, environmental and natural resource economics with an increasing number of scholars working on the topic, the book will also provide a comprehensive base in the literature for those entering the area, making it of interest to students, scholars and policy-makers alike.
- About the authors
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Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes is the MSMC Endowed Professor of Agribusiness Strategy and the Director of the Economics and Management of Agrobiotechnology Center (EMAC) at the University of Missouri. His research, teaching and outreach focus on the economics and policy of agrifood biotechnology and other agribusiness innovations.
Peter W.B. Phillips is Distinguished Professor of Public Policy in the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He undertakes research on governing transformative innovation, including regulation and trade policy.
Justus Wesseler is Professor and Head of Group Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy in the Social Science Department at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He undertakes research on the contribution of the bio-economy value chain to sustainable development.
Stuart Smyth is an Assistant Professor and holds the Industry Chair in Agri-Food Innovation in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His research focuses on the sustainability and farm level impacts of genetically modified crops.
- Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Introduction to the Issue of Coexistence
Pages 1-11
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The Science of Gene Flow in Agriculture and Its Role in Coexistence
Pages 13-37
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Developing Market Driven Standards for Coexistence: Tolerances, Thresholds, and Other Technical Standards Used by the Seed Industry
Pages 39-46
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Economic and Legal Principles of Coexistence Policy in North America
Pages 47-54
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Organic Label Rules and Market Tensions: The Challenge of Satisfying Buyers
Pages 55-61
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Coexistence of Genetically Modified, Organic and Conventional Foods
- Book Subtitle
- Government Policies and Market Practices
- Editors
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- Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes
- Peter W.B. Phillips
- Justus Wesseler
- Stuart J. Smyth
- Series Title
- Natural Resource Management and Policy
- Series Volume
- 49
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4939-3727-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4939-3727-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-3725-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-8121-2
- Series ISSN
- 0929-127X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 426
- Number of Illustrations
- 8 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
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