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By most measures, adoption of first-generation crop agrobiotechnologies in the United States and elsewhere has been extremely fast (James, 2001). Yet, only modest research effort has been devoted to understanding why producers in different parts of the world have adopted these technologies at such rapid rates. Indeed, one can find only a handful of published studies that have formally modelled and tested producer behavior in the adoption of first-generation crop biotechnologies (as in Marra et al., 2001). Instead, there has been more interest in measuring the impacts of agrobiotechnologies and their distribution both at the farm-level (e.g., see Marra, 2001, for a review of farm-level impact assessment studies) and at an aggregate level (Falck-Zepeda et al., 2000; Traxler & Falck-Zepeda, 1999; Moschini et al., 2000; Frisvold & Tronstad, chapter 14 in this volume).
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Kalaitzandonakes, N., Suntornpithug, P. (2003). Adoption of Cotton Biotechnology in the United States: Implications for Impact Assessment. In: Kalaitzandonakes, N. (eds) The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Agbiotech. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0177-0_6
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