Opportunities for orphan crops: Expected economic benefits from biotechnology

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dc.creatorZambrano, Patricia
dc.creatorWood-Sichra, Ulrike
dc.creatorRuhinduka, Remidius D.
dc.creatorPhillip, Dayo
dc.creatorNin-Pratt, Alejandro
dc.creatorKomen, John
dc.creatorKikulwe, Enoch Mutebi
dc.creatorFalck-Zepeda, José B.
dc.creatorDzanku, Fred M.
dc.creatorChambers, Judith A.
dc.date2022-06-23
dc.date2022-07-28T09:21:12Z
dc.date2022-07-28T09:21:12Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T13:33:50Z
dc.descriptionAn enabling, evidence-based decision-making framework is critical to support agricultural biotechnology innovation, and to ensure farmers’ access to genetically modified (GM) crops, including orphan crop varieties. A key element, and often a challenge in the decision-making process, involves the balancing of identified potential risks with expected economic benefits from GM crops. The latter is particularly challenging in the case of orphan crops, for which solid economic data is scarce. To address this challenge, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with local economists analyzed the expected economic benefits to farmers and consumers from the adoption of GM crops in 5 sub-Saharan African countries. This paper focuses on case studies involving insect-resistant cowpea in Nigeria and Ghana; disease-resistant cassava in Uganda and Tanzania; and disease-resistant banana in Uganda. Estimations from these case studies show substantial economic benefits to farmers and consumers from the timely adoption and planting in farmers’ fields of GM orphan crops. Our analysis also shows how the benefits would significantly be reduced by regulatory or other delays that affect the timely release of these crops. These findings underscore the importance of having an enabling policy environment and regulatory system—covering, among other elements, biosafety and food/feed safety assessment, and varietal release registration—that is efficient, predictable, and transparent to ensure that the projected economic benefits are delivered and realized in a timely manner.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/120346
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/63338
dc.languageen
dc.publisherFrontiers Media
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133716
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133541
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133636
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceZambrano, P.; Wood-Sichra, U.; Ruhinduka, R.D.; Phillip, D.; Nin Pratt, A.; Komen, J.; Kikulwe, E.M.; Falck Zepeda, J.; Dzanku, F.M.; Chambers, J.A. (2022) Opportunities for orphan crops: Expected economic benefits from biotechnology. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 825930 10 p. ISSN: 1664-462X https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.825930
dc.subjectplant biotechnology
dc.subjectinnovation adoption
dc.subjecteconomic benefits
dc.subjectgenetically modified organisms
dc.subjectpolicies
dc.subjectbiotecnología vegetal
dc.subjectadopción de innovaciones
dc.subjectbeneficios económicos
dc.subjectbanana
dc.subjectmodels
dc.subjectbiotechnology
dc.subjectcowpeas
dc.subjectmathematical models
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectfood safety
dc.subjectdisease resistance
dc.subjectcassava
dc.subjectregulations
dc.subjectdreampy
dc.subjectorphan crops
dc.subjectimpact assessment
dc.titleOpportunities for orphan crops: Expected economic benefits from biotechnology
dc.typeJournal Article

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