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Agricultural Resource Economics Lab
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A lab that uses economics to examine the issues surrounding plant breeding and genetic resources.
AboutAbout the lab
Considering varieties and genetic resources through economics.
The Agricultural Resource Economics Lab studies agricultural research and development and the spread of new technologies from the perspective of economics.
As the world's population continues to grow, there is an urgent need to increase food production through plant breeding and to respond to climate change.
At the same time, countries and multinational corporations assert sovereignty and intellectual property rights over varieties and genetic resources, which creates the problem of obstructing their free exchange.
Aiming at sustainable agricultural production, the lab considers the agricultural technologies that will be needed and the research and development systems and policies that can bring them about.
Key terms
- Plant breeding
- Creating new varieties, through methods such as crossbreeding, that have higher yield and quality or greater resistance to disease and climate
- Genetic resources
- The genetic traits of organisms such as crops, and the seeds and lines that carry those traits, which serve as material for plant breeding
- Intellectual property rights
- Rights granted to the people or organizations that produce intellectual creations, such as inventions and new plant varieties
ResearchResearch themes
The lab uses economics to analyze the efficiency of agricultural research and development, and the spread and social implementation of new technologies. Aiming at sustainable agricultural production, it approaches the agricultural technologies that are needed and the research and development systems and policies that can bring them about.
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- Associate ProfessorYoko Saito
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “A sea of ripe wheat - geograph.org.uk - 905835” Zorba the Geek / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Systems and policies for plant breeding and genetic resources: “Rice diversity” IRRI Images / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Development Economics Lab): “Paddy field in Nepal 2013” Sharada Prasad CS / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Regional Partnership Economics Lab): “Honbetsu north” Opqr / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cooperative Studies Lab): “Rice Fields Before Harvest in Autumn Hokkaido Japan” Sgroey / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Agricultural and Environmental Policy Lab): “Satoyama landscape near Hida, Gifu” Seth Vidal / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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