G Gruère, D Sengupta - The journal of development studies, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Bt cotton is accused of being responsible for an increase of farmer suicides in India. In this article, we provide a comprehensive review of evidence on Bt cotton and farmer suicides …
EM Liu - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013 - direct.mit.edu
This paper examines the role of individual risk attitudes in the decision to adopt a new form of agricultural biotechnology in China. I conducted a survey and a field experiment to elicit …
AP Gutierrez, L Ponti, HR Herren… - Environmental Sciences …, 2015 - Springer
Background Cotton with coevolving pests has been grown in India more than 5000 years. Hybrid cotton was introduced in the 1970s with increases in fertilizer and in insecticide use …
Genetic engineering has enabled significant, accepted innovations in medicine and other fields. In agriculture, however, a global cognitive divide around'genetically modified …
GP Gruère, P Mehta-Bhatt, D Sengupta - 2008 - books.google.com
Page 1 INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty IFPRIⓇ Supported by the CGIAR IFPRI Discussion Paper 00808 …
As progressively more farmers in developing countries begin using biotech crops, careful evaluation of such crops benefits becomes ever more important. This food policy review …
GD Stone - Economic and Political Weekly, 2012 - JSTOR
A group of researchers and industry writers have constructed a narrative of technological triumph for Bt cotton in India, based on an empirical record of superior performance …
RJ Herring, NC Rao - Economic and Political Weekly, 2012 - JSTOR
Given that the controversy over success and failure of Bt technology still exists, this paper discusses the available field studies that have addressed agro-economic questions of Bt …
RJ Herring - Journal of Peasant Studies, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Agricultural biotechnology has been a project of India's developmental state since 1986, but implementation generated significant conflict. Sequential cases of two crops carrying the …