From: Subject: SeedQuest - Central information website for the global seed industry Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:36:21 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001B_01C4539E.874D3A20"; type="text/html" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001B_01C4539E.874D3A20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://www.seedquest.com/News/releases/2004/june/8913.htm SeedQuest - Central information website for the = global seed industry
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Biodiversity versus = transgenic sugar=20 beet: the one euro question
June, 2004

European Review = of=20 Agriculture Economics
Vol 31 (1) = (March 2004)=20 pp.1-18

Biodiversity versus = transgenic=20 sugar beet: the one euro question
Matty=20 Demont
Katholieke Universiteit = Leuven,=20 Leuven, Belgium
Justus = Wesseler=20
Wageningen University, Wageningen, The=20 Netherlands
Eric Tollens=20
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, = Belgium=20

Received November 2002; final version received = November 2003.

Summary=20

The decision on = whether to=20 release transgenic crops in the EU is = subject to=20 irreversibility, uncertainty and flexibility. = We=20 analyse the case of herbicide-tolerant sugar beet and=20 assess whether the EU=92s 1998 de = facto=20 moratorium on transgenic crops for sugar = beet was=20 correct from a cost=96benefit perspective, = using a=20 real option approach. We show that the decision = was=20 correct, providing households on average value = the=20 possible annual irreversible costs of=20 herbicide-tolerant sugar beet at =801 or = more. On the=20 other hand, the total net private reversible=20 benefits forgone if the de facto = moratorium is=20 not lifted are around =80169 = million per=20 year.

European Review of = Agricultural Economics vol. 31 no. 1
=A9 Oxford=20 University Press and Foundation for the European = Review of=20 Agricultural Economics 2004
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