Challenging a place myth: New Zealand's clean green image meets the biotechnology revolution

Valuing New Zealand’s Clean Green Image

The empirical work done in this study reinforces the qualitative evidence that our clean green image is valuable, and provides some useful insights into the size and nature of that value. The results are of course not definitive – no contingent valuation study can ever be so – but they do strongly indicate a significant vulnerability of export value (through reduction in product quantities like...

Can Agro-dealers deliver the Green Revolution in Kenya? Agro-dealers and the new Green Revolution

In a bid to return the country to food selfsufficiency, the Government of Kenya has been spearheading strategies for a new ‘Green Revolution’ in the food producing sector, as spelt out in its Strategy for Revitalizing Agriculture (SRA), a ten-year action plan launched in 2004. The SRA is entrenched in Kenya’s Vision 2030, the country’s framework for long-term investment and development (Republi...

Scientific Revolution Meets Policy and the Market: Explaining Cross-National Differences in Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation

The development and marketing of agricultural biotechnology applications has led to controversies over whether and how to regulate this new technology. In response, the European Union has imposed severe restrictions on agricultural biotechnology, particularly in terms of approval and labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food. In stark contrast, the United States maintains a far ...

Technological Revolution Meets Policy and the Market: Explaining Cross-National Differences in Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation

The development and marketing of agricultural biotechnology applications has led to controversies over whether and how to regulate this new technology. The European Union has imposed severe restrictions on agricultural biotechnology, particularly in terms of approval and labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food. The United States has maintained a far more permissive approval po...

Africa’s Turn A New Green Revolution for the 21st Century