Biotechnology for a Second Green Revolution in India

Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acronyms
About the Editors/Contributors
Foreword
Director's Message
Acknowledgements
Biotechnology for Second Green Revolution in India: Overview of Issues
Section 1
Macro Issues
1. Politics of Biotechnology: Ideas, Risk, and Interest in Cases from India
2. The Competing Policy Paradigms of Agricultural Biotechnology: Implications and Opportunities for Emerging and Developing Economies
3. Labelling GM Food in India: Anticipating the Effects on GM Brinjal and Rice Marketing Chains
4. Bt Cotton in India: A Review of Adoption, Government Interventions and Investment Initiatives
5. Welfare Gains from Application of First Generation Biotechnology in Indian Agriculture: The Case of Bt Cotton
Section 2
New Technologies on the Horizon
6. Potential Economic Benefits from Adoption of Bt Brinjal Hybrids in India
7. The Potential Economic Impacts of Herbicide Tolerant Maize in Developing Countries: A Case Study
8. Technology Adoption and its Impact on Labour Use: The Case for Herbicide Tolerant Technologies
Section 3
Evidence on Performance of Bt Cotton
9. Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Private Sector R&D on Cotton Productivity in India
10. Socioeconomic Impacts of Bt Cotton Adoption in India: Evidence from Panel Data
11. Economic and Environmental Performance of Bt Cotton in India
12. Bt Cotton Cultivation in Maharashtra: An Economic Analysis Based on Field Data
13. Technology Diffusion and Adoption in Cotton Cultivation: Emerging Scenario in Gujarat
14. On the 'Failure of Bt Cotton': Analysing a Decade of Experience
Index

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• Indústrias manufactureiras
• Economia agrícola
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