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Biotechnology and North American Specialty Crops:Linking Research, Regulation, and Stakeholders
(NABC, 2014)This summary captures the status and key guidance issues that emerged from NABC 25, hosted by Texas A&M AgriLife Research for researchers, government regulators and industry representatives.The discussion covered: the ... -
Agriculture and the changing climate
(NABC, 2011-11-01)This paper summarizes the information on agriculture and climate change. Global climate change is occurring with temperature rising more rapidly in the last 100 years than in the previous recent times. Anthropogenic CO2 ... -
Agricultural Water Security: Research and Development Prescription for Improving Water Use Efficiency, Availability and Quality
(NABC, 2010-12-31)Water is essential for agriculture which uses 70–80% of withdrawn fresh water. By 2050 the global need for increased food/feed production for 3.0 billion additional humans will greatly expand agriculture’s need for water. ... -
Food and agricultural research:Innovation to transform human health
(NABC, 2009-03-06)Delivery of healthcare is a pressing social, economic, technical and political challenge, 75% of health care expenditure in the US are for diet-related chronic diseases, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, etc. Emphasis has ... -
Agriculture and Forestry for Energy, Chemicals and Materials: The Road Forward
(NABC, 2007-02-05)A call for a national mobilization—by academe, government and industry—to move the United States economy from mainly petroleum-based to more sustainably biologically-based, with 100+ billion gallons annually of transportation ... -
Recommendations for Management Practices for Field Trials with Bioengineered Plants
(NABC, 2005-12-31)Recommendations for best paractices for field trialing of bioengineered plants at research institutions. -
Vision forAgricultural Research and Developmentin the 21st Century
(NABC, 1998-12-14)Agricultural research and development (AR&D) will take the lead in providing the technology for a biobased economy in the 21st century. In contrast with our present fossil-based economy, the biobased economy will use ... -
Report of the NABC Ad-Hoc Committee on Ethics
(NABC, 1996)This is the report of the NABC subcommittee on ethics, charged to investigate issues of ethics surrounding agricultural biotechnology. -
Labeling of Biotechnology Products
(NABC, 1994-02-15)Speakers t this symposium presented issues surround the issue of labeling of biotech products and the right of the consumer to know about the ingredients of the food they eat. -
Ethics and Patenting of Transgenic Organisms
(NABC, 1992-09-30)In this symposium the authors presented talks on issues surrounding the ethics of patenting transgenic organisms including economic effect of regulation and the public perception of the issues.
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