The emergence of biotechnology in crop and livestock applications has been an issue of great controversy. Proponents argue that the potential benefits are dramatic while opponents have raised many concerns about the technology's risks. The Starlink debacle is a prime example of the undesirable...

Over the years agricultural technology has created remarkable commodity production growthrates and enhanced general economic growth through food production, manufactured goods and tradefor most nations. Biotechnology holds the promise of continuing this remarkable record. There is a longlist of...

Many agricultural economists are not familiar with case study research, yet the approach is a useful means of collecting data, and building and testing theory. Case study research has a prescribed set of objectives, epistemology, methodology, and methods that have been developed and tested in a...

Falling commodity returns. Proliferating environmental regulations. More complicated technologies. Pickier consumers. The general outlook is for an economic environment that puts greatly increased demands on agribusiness management. It's a sow's ear. What can be done with it?

The IFAMR is published by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association www.ifama.org