Long-term impacts of Bt cotton in India

KR Kranthi, GD Stone - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Most scholarship on the closely-watched case of genetically modified Bacillus thuringiensis
(Bt) cotton in India has focused on short-term impacts and has also ignored other major …

Bt cotton and farmer suicides in India: an evidence-based assessment

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 …

Time to change what to sow: Risk preferences and technology adoption decisions of cotton farmers in China

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 …

Deconstructing Indian cotton: weather, yields, and suicides

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 …

Opposition to transgenic technologies: ideology, interests and collective action frames

RJ Herring - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2008 - nature.com
Genetic engineering has enabled significant, accepted innovations in medicine and other
fields. In agriculture, however, a global cognitive divide around'genetically modified …

[图书][B] Bt cotton and farmer suicides in India: Reviewing the evidence

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 …

[图书][B] Measuring the economic impacts of transgenic crops in developing agriculture during the first decade: Approaches, findings, and future directions

M Smale, P Zambrano, G Gruère, J Falck-Zepeda… - 2009 - books.google.com
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 …

Constructing facts: By cotton narratives in India

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 …

On the'failure of Bt cotton': Analysing a decade of experience

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 …

State science, risk and agricultural biotechnology: Bt cotton to Bt Brinjal in India

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 …