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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Landscape Clubs: Co-existence of GM and Organic Crops
Autores: | Furtan,   William Hartley; Guzel,   A.; Weseen,   A.S.
Data: | 2005-09-28
Ano: | 2005
Palavras-chave: | Crop Production/Industries; D71; Q16.
Resumo: | The possibility of increased production of genetically modified (GM) crops in agriculture accentuates the need to examine the feasibility of GM and non-GM technologies coexisting on a common physical landscape. Using the theory of clubs, this paper examines the possibility of coexistence for GM and organic wheat technologies through the formation of an organic club with an endogenously determined buffer zone. Given the available data on prices, yields, and rotations, it is shown that a club can be created in which GM and organic agricultural production technologies can economically co-exist in the same physical landscape. Specifically, co-existence results in an increase in economic welfare over a situation where only GM technology is used but is not Pareto superior because producers in the buffer zone will incur injury. We show that organic producers in the club can compensate producers in the buffer zone and still be better off. Hence, the compensation principle holds.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

17720

http://purl.umn.edu/24495

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

European Association of Agricultural Economists&gt;2005 International Congress, August 23-27, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Formato:

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