Agriculture is extremely sensitive to climate and weather conditions. The resilience of our
crop production systems to changes in climate can be enhanced by improved understanding …

This article reviews literature on competitiveness of agricultural product and input markets.
Although researchers in the United States and Europe emphasize different stages of the …

Since the 1980s, many developing countries have introduced policies to promote seed
industry growth and improve the delivery of modern science to farmers, often with a long …

The genetic improvement of food staple crops cultivated by small-scale farmers is a well-
established route to increasing agricultural productivity and improving rural livelihoods. But …

This comprehensive survey of modern plant breeding traces its history from the earliest
experiments at the dawn of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century to the present …

The merger of Dow and DuPont, the acquisition of Syngenta by ChemChina, and the
acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer have recently reshaped the global seed and biotech …

▪ Abstract The consequences of the invention of DNA-based molecular techniques and their
application to agriculture have been pervasive. This review examines the key consequences …

Few empirical studies have addressed the impact of the patent system on industry structure.
Using firm‐level patent data for firms in plant biotechnology, we develop a measure of patent …

Pressures from the USA and Europe have resulted in the proliferation of stronger intellectual
property protection worldwide, as a condition for continued access to world markets. The …

Since the late 1980s, technological advances and policy reforms have created new
opportunities for private-sector investment in India's seed and agricultural biotechnology …