Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction -- Gerald C. Nelson -- 2 Traits and Techniques of GMOs -- Gerald C. Nelson -- 3 The Economics of Technology Adoption -- Gerald C. Nelson and David Bullock -- 4 GMO Adoption and Private Cost Savings: GR Soybeans -- and Bt Corn -- David Bullock and Elisavet I. Nitsi -- 5 Simulation of World Market Effects: The 2010 World -- Market With and Without Bt Corn and GR Soybeans -- Mark W. Rosegrant -- 6 Cotton GMO Adoption and Private Profitability -- Jose Benjamin Falck-Zepeda, Greg Traxler and -- Robert G. Nelson -- 7 GMO Adoption and Nonmarket Effects -- Gerald C. Nelson and Alessandro De Pinto -- 8 The Stakeholders and the Struggle for Public Opinion, -- Regulatory Control and Market Development -- Julie Babinard and Timothy Josling -- 9 The Domestic and Regional Regulatory Environment -- Gerald C. Nelson, Julie Babinard and Timothy Josling -- 10 International Institutions, World Trade Rules, and GMOs -- Timothy Josling -- 11 Market Responses to Consumer Demand and Regulatory -- Change -- Laurian Unnevehr, Lowell Hill and Carrie Cunningham -- 12 Looking to the Future -- Timothy Josling and Gerald C. Nelson -- Part 2 -- Perspectives on the Controversies -- Farm Perspectives -- 13 Biotechnology Crops - A Producer's Perspective -- Mark W. Jenner -- 14 Genetically Modified Crops and the American Agricultural -- Producer -- Gary Goldberg -- Government Perspectives -- 15 Toward Common Ground: Roles of Markets and Policy -- Nicole Ballenger and Mary Bohman -- 16 The Economics of Agricultural Biotechnology: Differences -- and Similarities in the US and the EU -- Tassos Haniotis -- Developing Country Perspectives -- 17 Modern Agricultural Biotechnology and Developing -- Country Food Security -- Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Marc J. Cohen -- 18 GMOs: A Miracle? -- Vandana Shiva -- Environmental Perspectives -- 19 GMOs in Agriculture: An Environmental Perspective -- Richard Caplan -- 20 Genetically Modified Organisms Can Help Save the Planet -- Dennis Avery -- Consumer Issues - Food Safety/Labeling -- 21 Genetic Engineering: A Technology Ahead of the Science and -- Public Policy? -- An Extract Reprinted from the US Congressional Record of -- November 1 and November 2, 2000 -- 22 Food Industry Perspective on Safety and Labeling of -- Biotechnology -- Gene Grabowski -- 23 GMO Regulations: Food Safety or Trade Barrier? -- Malcom Kane -- 24 Genetically Engineered Food: Make Sure It's Safe and -- Label It -- Michael Hansen -- Life Sciences Industry -- 25 Ag Biotech: Our Past and Our Future -- Roger Krueger -- Part 3 -- Special Topics -- 26 A Short History of Agricultural Biotechnology -- Julie Babinard -- 27 Plant Genetic Modification Technologies -- Jack Widholm -- 28 Bt Corn and the Monarch Butterfly: Research Update -- Richard L. Hellmich and Blair D. Siegfried -- 29 The Beef Hormone Dispute Between the United States and -- the EU -- Timothy Josling and Donna Roberts -- Agricultural Biotech Glossary -- GMO Field Trials in Europe -- References and Further Reading -- Index.