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| Contributors | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Analysis of Current GMO Benefits and Costs | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Traits and Techniques of GMOs | |
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| The Economics of Technology Adoption | |
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| GMO Adoption and Private Cost Savings: GR Soybeans and Bt Corn | |
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| Simulation of World Market Effects: The 2010 World Market With and Without Bt Corn and GR Soybeans | |
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| Cotton GMO Adoption and Private Profitability | |
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| GMO Adoption and Nonmarket Effects | |
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| The Stakeholders and the Struggle for Public Opinion, Regulatory Control and Market Development | |
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| The Domestic and Regional Regulatory Environment | |
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| International Institutions, World Trade Rules, and GMOs | |
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| Market Responses to Consumer Demand and Regulatory Change | |
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| Looking to the Future | |
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| Perspectives on the Controversies | |
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| Farm Perspectives | |
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| Biotechnology Crops--A Producer's Perspective | |
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| Genetically Modified Crops and the American Agricultural Producer | |
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| Government Perspectives | |
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| Toward Common Ground: Roles of Markets and Policy | |
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| The Economics of Agricultural Biotechnology: Differences and Similarities in the US and the EU | |
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| Developing Country Perspectives | |
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| Modern Agricultural Biotechnology and Developing Country Food Security | |
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| GMOs: A Miracle? | |
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| Environmental Perspectives | |
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| GMOs in Agriculture: An Environmental Perspective | |
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| Genetically Modified Organisms Can Help Save the Planet | |
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| Consumer Issues--Food Safety/Labeling | |
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| Genetic Engineering: A Technology Ahead of the Science and Public Policy? (An Extract Reprinted from the US Congressional Record of November 1 and November 2, 2000) | |
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| Food Industry Perspective on Safety and Labeling of Biotechnology | |
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| GMO Regulations: Food Safety or Trade Barrier? | |
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| Genetically Engineered Food: Make Sure It's Safe and Label It | |
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| Life Sciences Industry | |
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| Ag Biotech: Our Past and Our Future | |
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| Special Topics | |
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| A Short History of Agricultural Biotechnology | |
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| Plant Genetic Modification Technologies | |
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| Bt Corn and the Monarch Butterfly: Research Update | |
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| The Beef Hormone Dispute Between the United States and the EU | |
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| Agricultural Biotech Glossary | |
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| GMO Field Trials in Europe | |
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| References and Further Reading | |
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| Index | |