Two economics professors in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University have written an interesting piece about local food, titled The Locavore's Dilemma: Why Pineapples Shouldn't Be Grown in North Dakota. Jayson L. Lusk is Professor and Willard Sparks Endowed…
Tag: Economics
Investment matters when it comes to gains in economic productivity over time – even in the cornfield.
In an earlier post, we quoted Klaus Ammann's investigation of maize yields and the differences between the United States and Europe in improvement in these yields over time.This post provides an update of this story, showing encouraging recent progress in…
The Big Dragon has an Appetite
China's hungry againANDREW MARSHALL03 Dec, 2010 11:19 AMFarm on LineTHE global economy might be only running in second gear, but demand for food is fast moving into supercharged territory again, particularly in hungry China.In October average food prices jumped 10…
A sustainability gap needing to be filled by farm innovation
Global Harvest Initiative GAP report 2010A new report has come out which explains why agricultural innovation is important for conserving resources and benefiting the global environment.It does this by showing that we need improvements in what economists call total factor…
Biodiversity world tour event at Nagoya Japan –save forest for nature by working from the ground up not top-down
GMO Pundit participated in a session running in parallel with the conference of parties (COP) biodiversity discussions that occurred last week in Nagoya, Japan. He had an opportunity to frame some points to make to the delegates who are interested…
Developing countries would not gain if they imposed bans on GM crop imports: the consumer loss to Asian and Sub-Saharan African farmers is far more than the small gain in terms of greater market access to the EU
Economic Impacts of Policies Affecting Crop Biotechnology and Trade- Kym Anderson, New Biotechnology (in Press), full paper athttp://web.services.adelaide.edu.au/cies/publications/present/CIES_DP1012.pdfAgricultural biotechnologies, and especially transgenic crops, have the potential to boost food security in developing countries by offering higher incomes for farmers and…
Journalists always look at things differently– especially farm economics
It pays not to cultivate GM crops, survey findsBy Steve Connor, Science EditorFriday, 8 OctoberUK IndependentThe first economic analysis of growing genetically modified crops on a wide scale has found that the biggest winners were the farmers who decided not…