Balancing productivity and trade objectives in a competing environment: Should India commercialize GM rice with or without China?
India is considering approving genetically modified (GM) rice, but it fears losing rice exports to sensitive countries with import regulations on GM food, and may wait for China to lead the way. Using a multiregion, computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, we simulate the economic effects of intr...
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| author | Gruère, Guillaume P. Mevel, Simon Bouët, Antoine |
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| description | India is considering approving genetically modified (GM) rice, but it fears losing rice exports to sensitive countries with import regulations on GM food, and may wait for China to lead the way. Using a multiregion, computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, we simulate the economic effects of introducing GM rice in India with or without China in the presence of labeling and import approval regulations of GM food in GM sensitive importing countries. We find that the welfare gains with GM rice in India would largely exceed any potential export loss, and that the segregation of non‐GM rice could help reduce these minor losses. We also find no significant first mover advantage for India or China on GM rice. The opportunity cost of segregation of non‐GM rice is much larger for sensitive importers than for India, which suggests that these importers would have the incentive to pay for the cost of segregation. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1621382025-02-19T14:08:16Z Balancing productivity and trade objectives in a competing environment: Should India commercialize GM rice with or without China? Gruère, Guillaume P. Mevel, Simon Bouët, Antoine genetically modified foods rice biotechnology international trade India is considering approving genetically modified (GM) rice, but it fears losing rice exports to sensitive countries with import regulations on GM food, and may wait for China to lead the way. Using a multiregion, computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, we simulate the economic effects of introducing GM rice in India with or without China in the presence of labeling and import approval regulations of GM food in GM sensitive importing countries. We find that the welfare gains with GM rice in India would largely exceed any potential export loss, and that the segregation of non‐GM rice could help reduce these minor losses. We also find no significant first mover advantage for India or China on GM rice. The opportunity cost of segregation of non‐GM rice is much larger for sensitive importers than for India, which suggests that these importers would have the incentive to pay for the cost of segregation. 2009-07 2024-11-21T10:01:20Z 2024-11-21T10:01:20Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162138 en Limited Access Wiley Gruère, Guillaume P. P.; Mevel, Simon; Bouët, Antoine. 2009. Balancing productivity and trade objectives in a competing environment. Agricultural Economics Agricultural Economics 40 (4): 459–475 |
| spellingShingle | genetically modified foods rice biotechnology international trade Gruère, Guillaume P. Mevel, Simon Bouët, Antoine Balancing productivity and trade objectives in a competing environment: Should India commercialize GM rice with or without China? |
| title | Balancing productivity and trade objectives in a competing environment: Should India commercialize GM rice with or without China? |
| title_full | Balancing productivity and trade objectives in a competing environment: Should India commercialize GM rice with or without China? |
| title_fullStr | Balancing productivity and trade objectives in a competing environment: Should India commercialize GM rice with or without China? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Balancing productivity and trade objectives in a competing environment: Should India commercialize GM rice with or without China? |
| title_short | Balancing productivity and trade objectives in a competing environment: Should India commercialize GM rice with or without China? |
| title_sort | balancing productivity and trade objectives in a competing environment should india commercialize gm rice with or without china |
| topic | genetically modified foods rice biotechnology international trade |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162138 |
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