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Stone, John, V.
November 2009, 'The Different Views of Nanotechnology'. Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards, Michigan State University. Paper presented at Mott Community College in Flint MI.
Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards
2007 An Issues Landscape for Nanotechnology Standards: Report of a Workshop. Cowles House, 11-12 September, 2006. East Lansing, MI: Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards, Michigan State University.
Rudy, Alan P., Dawn Coppin, Jason Konefal, Bradley T. Shaw, Toby Ten Eyck, Craig Harris and Lawrence Busch
2007 Universities in the Age of Corporate Science: The UC Berkeley-Novartis Controversy.
Holcombe, Steve
2007 Methods for Protecting Data Ownership Rights Along Complex Supply Chains
Priest, Susanna H.
2007 Images of Agrifood Nanotechnology: Public Representations and Private Visions Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, session on What is Agrifood Nanotechnology? Technical, Ethical, Legal, and Social Questions.
Selke, Susan E.
2007 Nanotechnology and Agrifood Packaging: Applications and Issues. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, session on What is Agrifood Nanotechnology? Technical, Ethical, Legal, and Social Questions.
Wolfe, Amy K.
2007 The dynamics of the acceptability of agrifood nanotechnologies. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, session on What is Agrifood Nanotechnology? Technical, Ethical, Legal, and Social Questions.
Sparling, David
2007 Technology and the Agrifood Industry: Reshaping Business Models. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, session on What is Agrifood Nanotechnology? Technical, Ethical, Legal, and Social Questions.
Kuzma, Jennifer
2007 Oversight Policy for Agrifood Nanotechnology: Bridging Science, Risk, and Society. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, session on What is Agrifood Nanotechnology? Technical, Ethical, Legal, and Social Questions.
Bünger, Mark
2007 Nanotechnology in Sustainable Packaging: Business's Perspective on Costs and Benefits. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, session on What is Agrifood Nanotechnology? Technical, Ethical, Legal, and Social Questions.
Stone, John V.
2007 Toward an Integrated Approach to Public Engagement in Agrifood Nanotechnology. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, session on What is Agrifood Nanotechnology? Technical, Ethical, Legal, and Social Questions.
Hatto, Peter
2007 International Standardization for Nanotechnologies. Presented as part of the Agrifood and Nanotechnology Seminar Series.
Konefal, Jason, and Lawrence Busch
2006 The Changing Structure of Agriculture: Non-genetically Modified Corn and Soybeans in the 21st Century. East Lansing, MI: Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards, Michigan State University.
Busch, Lawrence and Jim Bingen
2006 Standards and Standardization. In Beckert, J. and M. Zafirovski (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology.
Stone, John V.
2006 Roots to Branches: Anthropology and the Human Dimensions of Nanotechnology. Practicing Anthropology 28(2):31-37.
Stone, John V. and Amy K. Wolfe (editors)
2006 Nanotechnology in Society: Atlas in Wonderland? Special issue of the Journal, Practicing Anthropology 28(2).
Stone, John V. and Amy K. Wolfe
2006 Nanotechnology in Society: Atlas in Wonderland? Practicing Anthropology 28(2):2-5.
Hatanaka, Maki, Carmen Bain, and Lawrence Busch
2006 Differentiated Standardization, Standardized Differentiation: the Complexity of the Global Agrifood System. In T. Marsden and J. Murdoch (Eds.) Between the Local and the Global: Confronting Complexity in the Contemporary Food Sector.
Neven, David, Thomas Reardon, Jonathan Chege, and Honglin Wang
2006 Supermarkets and Consumers in Africa: The case of Nairobi, Kenya. Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing 18(1):103-123.
Codron, Jean-Marie, Lucie Siriex and Thomas Reardon
2006 Social and Environmental Attributes of Food Products in an Emerging Mass Market: Challenges of Signaling and Consumer Perception with European Illustrations. Agriculture and Human Values 23(3):283-297.
Bingen, Jim. and Lawrence Busch, eds.
2006 Agricultural Standards: The Shape Of The Global Food And Fiber System. Dordrecht: Springer.
Busch, Lawrence, Deepa Thiagarajan, Maki Hatanaka, Carmen Bain, Luis G. Flores and Mark Frahm
2005 The Relationship of Third-Party Certification (TPC) to Sanitary/Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures and the International Agri-Food Trade: Final Report. RAISE SPS Global Analytical Report #9. Prepared for USAID under RAISE Task Order 14, Assistance for Trade Capacity Building in Relation to the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures.
Selke, Susan E.
2005 Nanotechnology and Packaging. Presented as part of the Agrifood and Nanotechnology Seminar Series.
Tanaka, Keiko
2005 forthcoming (Japanese). American Public’s Reponses to BSE Crisis. Agriculture and Economy. Invited manuscript to be published in the special issue on Issues surrounding Reopening of Beef Import: Will Science be Used Effectively?
Gaskell,George
2005 Reflections on biotechnology’s years of controversy. Presented at the First International IFAS Conference on Nanotechnology.
David, Kenneth
2005 Setting Nano-fears and Nano-benefits in context: Powers and Representations. Presented at the First International IFAS Conference on Nanotechnology.
Geerlings, Hans
2005 What can Nanotechnology learn from Biotechnology? Presented at the First International IFAS Conference on Nanotechnology.
Macnaghten, Phil
2005 From Bio to Nano: Learning the Lessons, Interrogating the Comparison. Presented at the First International IFAS Conference on Nanotechnology.
Mellon, Margaret
2005 Of Hype, Home, and Handles: A Biotechnology Activist Looks at Nanotechnology. Presented at the First International IFAS Conference on Nanotechnology.
Mehta, Manish
2005 14 Critical Issues Impacting U.S. Nanomanufacturing Commercialization - 2005 NCMS-NSF Industry Survey. Presented at the First International IFAS Conference on Nanotechnology.
Wolfe, Amy
2005 What can nano learn from bio? Presented at the First International IFAS Conference on Nanotechnology.
Miller, Sonia
2005 Legal Lessons Learned from Agri-Food Biotechnology and GMOs. Presented at the First International IFAS Conference on Nanotechnology.
Burk, Dan
2005 The Lessons of Biotech Patenting. Presented at the First International IFAS Conference on Nanotechnology.
Lloyd, John R.
2005 Concluding Remarks of the First International IFAS Conference on Nanotechnology.
Busch, Lawrence
2005 Five Lessons to be Learned. Presented at the First International IFAS Conference on Nanotechnology.
Sparling, David
2005 Building a new technology business: A framework for translating biotechnology experiences to nanotechnology. Presented at the First International IFAS Conference on Nanotechnology.
Burkhardt, Jeffrey
2005 Agricultural Biotech Ethics at 25: Lessons learned (and not learned). Presented at the First International IFAS Conference on Nanotechnology.
McHughen, Alan
2005 Learning from mistakes: missteps in public acceptance issues with GMOs. Presented at the First International IFAS Conference on Nanotechnology.
Tanaka, Keiko
2005 Redefining the Moral Responsibilities for Food Safety: The Case of Red Meat in New Zealand. Rural Sociology 70(4):470-490.
Bain, C., B. Deaton, and L. Busch
2005 Agricultural and Food Standards. In V. Higgins and G. Lawrence, eds. Agricultural Governance. Boston: Routledge, forthcoming.
Hatanaka, Maki, Carmen Bain, and Lawrence Busch
2005 Third-Party Certification in the Global Agrifood System. Food Policy 30(3):354-369.
Mainville, Denise Y., Decio Zylbersztajn, Elizabeth M.M.Q. Farina, Thomas Reardon
2005 Determinants of Retailers’ Decisions to Use Public or Private Grades and Standards: Evidence from the Fresh Produce Market of São Paulo, Brazil Food Policy 30(3):334-353.
Codron, Jean-Marie, Eric Giraud-Héraud, and Louis-Georges Soler
2005 Minimum Quality Standards, Premium Private Labels, and European Meat and Fresh Produce Retailing. Food Policy 30(3):270-283.
Berdegué, Julio A., Fernando Balsevich, Luis Flores, Thomas Reardon
2005 Central American Supermarkets’ Private Standards of Quality and Safety in Procurement of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. Food Policy (30) 3:254-269.
Reardon, Thomas and Spencer Henson
2005 Private Agri-food Standards: Implications for Food Policy and the Agri-food Systems
Food Policy (30) 3:241-253
Farina, Elizabeth M.M.Q., Graciela E. Gutman, Pablo J. Lavarello, Rubens Nunes, Thomas Reardon
2005 Private and Public Milk Standards in Argentina and Brazil, Food Policy, (30) 3:302-315 .
Worden, Mark, Daina Briedis, Lawrence Busch, John Lloyd, Susan Selke, Kenneth David, and John Stone
2005 Social and Ethical Considerations in Biosciences and Engineering. Presented as part of the Agrifood and Nanotechnology Seminar Series.
Wright, Wynne, Elizabeth Ransom, and Keiko Tanaka
2005 The "All-American Meal": Constructing Confidence in the Case of BSE. Journal of Illness, Crisis and Loss 13(1):95-115.
Reardon, T., J.A. Berdegué, and C. P. Timmer
2005 Supermarketization of the Emerging Markets of the Pacific Rim: Development and Trade Implications.
Journal of Food Distribution Research, 36 (1) March:3-13
Bain, C. and Lawrence Busch
2005 Hide or Confide, Gertjan Hofsteade (ed.), Amsterdam: Reed Business Information: The Limits of Audits, 141-145.
Winickoff, D, B. Wynne, S. Jasanoff, R. Grove-White, L. Busch
2005 Adjudicating the GM Food Wars: Science, Risk, and Democracy in World Trade Law, The Yale Journal of International Law. 30 (1): Pp. 81-123.
Gale, Fred and Thomas Reardon
2004 China’s Modernizing Supermarket Sector Presents Major Opportunities for U.S. Agricultural Exporters. AgExporter. Published by USDA. November.
Neven, D. and Thomas Reardon
2004 The Rise of Kenyan Supermarkets and Evolution of their Horticulture Product Procurement Systems. Development Policy Review, 22(6) November: 669-699.
Reardon, Thomas
2004 The Importance of Being Earnest – How Supermarkets Are Reshaping Farmer Opportunities and Challenges in Developing Country Agrifood Systems. LAC Trade Matters. Published by USAID/Washington, No. 35. November.
Lloyd, John R.
2004 Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? Presented as part of the Agrifood and Nanotechnology Seminar Series.
Reardon, T., C.P. Timmer, J. Berdegué
2004 The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Developing Countries: Induced Organizational, Institutional, and Technological Change in Agrifood Systems. Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development Economics – e-JADE. Published by FAO. October, Vol. 1, Number 2.
Dries, L., T. Reardon and J. Swinner
2004 The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Central and Eastern Europe: Implications for the Agrifood Sector and Rural Development. Development Policy Review, vol. 22, no. 5, September: 525-56.
Reardon, Thomas and J. Swinner (eds.)
2004 Policy Symposium (Special section set of articles) on Supermarkets and Development in Former State-Controlled Economies. Development Policy Review, 22(5). September
Hu, D., T. Reardon, S. Rozelle, P. Timmer, H. Wang
2004 The Emergence of Supermarkets with Chinese Characteristics: Challenges and Opportunities for China‘s Agricultural Development. Development Policy Review, vol. 22, no. 4, Sept.: 557-86.
Reardon, Thomas and J.F.M. Swinnen
2004 Agrifood Sector Liberalization and the Rise of Supermarkets in Former State-Controlled Economies: A Comparative Overview. Development Policy Review. vol. 22, no. 5, September: 515-23.
Codron, Jean-Marie, Bouhsina Z., Fort F., Coudel E. and E. Puech
2004 Supermarkets in Low Income Mediterranean Countries: Impacts on Horticultural Systems. Development Policy Review (GBR), vol. 22, n° 5, 2004/09, Pp 587-602.
Busch, Lawrence and Carmen Bain
2004 New! Improved? The Transformation of the Global Agrifood System: Rural Sociology. 69(3): 321-346.
IFAS
2004 Presenting Our Beloved Project: Building Capacity for Social & Ethical Research & Education in Agrifood Nanotechnology. Presented as part of the Agrifood and Nanotechnology Seminar Series.
Busch, Lawrence, Richard Allison, Craig Harris, Alan Rudy, Bradley T. Shaw, Toby Ten Eyck, Dawn Coppin, Jason Konefal, Christopher Oliver, and James Fairweather
2004 External Review of the Collaborative Research Agreement between Novartis Agricultural Discovery Institute, Inc. and The Regents of the University of California. East Lansing, MI: Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards, Michigan State University.
•Bain, C. and Lawrence Busch
2004 Standards and Strategies in the Michigan Blueberry Industry. East Lansing, MI: Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, Research Report 585.
Busch, Lawrence
2004 The Social Construction of Food Safety. In Lien, M.E. and Brigitte Nerlich (Eds.), The Politics of Food. Pp. 163-178, Oxford: Berg.
Hu, D., F. Fuller and T. Reardon
2004 The Impact of the Rapid Development of Supermarkets on the Dairy Industry of China. Zhongguo Nongcun Jingji (Chinese Rural Economy), 7 (235): 12-18.
Balsevich, F., J.A. Berdegue, L. Flores, D. Mainville, and Thomas Reardon
2003 Supermarkets and Produce Quality and Safety Standards in Latin America. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85 (5), December: 1147-1154.
Reardon, Thomas, C.P. Timmer, C.B. Barrett and J. Berdegue
2003 The Rise of Supermarkets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85 (5), December: 1140-1146.
Busch, Lawrence
2003 Virgil, Viligence, and Voice. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 16: 459-477.
Yamaguchi, T., Craig Harris, and Lawrence Busch
2003 Agrifood Biotechnology Discourse in India. Science, Technology, and Society , 8(1): 47-72.Agrifood Biotechnology Discourse in India
Codron, J.M., J.A. Sterns, and Thomas Reardon
2003 Strategic Choices in Produce Marketing: Issues of Compatible Use and Exclusion Costs. Journal of Food Distribution Research, 33(3) November: 1-13.
Weatherspoon, D.D and Thomas Reardon
2003 The Rise of Supermarkets in Africa: implications for agrifood systems and the rural poor. Development Policy Review, May, 21(3): 333-355.
Weatherspoon, D. and T. Reardon
2003 Supermarkets in Sub-Saharan Africa: challenges and opportunities for agrifood suppliers. Africa Regional Overview, Q2/2003: Lead Article. London: The Economist Intelligence Unit: 1-6.
Tanaka, K. and Lawrence Busch
2003 Standardization as a Means for Globalizing a Commodity: The Case of Rapeseed in China. Rural Sociology. 68(1): 25-45.
Busch, Lawrence
2003 Klasser og Standarder I den Sosiale Konstruksjonen av Trygg Mat. In Marit S. Haugen and Egil Petter Stræte, (Eds.) Ut I Verden Og Inn I Bygda: Festskrift til Reidar Almås. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag, Pp. 219-238.
Hu, D., Yu, H., and Thomas Reardon
2003 Sale and Consumers' Buying Behavior of Fresh Agricultural Products in Supermarkets in China. Zhongguo Nongcun Jingji (Chinese Rural Economy), 8(224).
Busch, Lawrence
2002 Agricultural Sciences and Technology. Pp. 333-337 in N. J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Reardon, T., J.A. Berdegue, and J. Farrington
2002 Supermarkets and Farming in Latin America: pointing directions for elsewhere? ODI Natural Resource Perspectives, 81(6).
Reardon, T. and J. Berdegue
2002 The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Latin America. Development Policy Review, 20(4), September.
Faiguenbaum, S., J.A. Berdegue, and T. Reardon
2002 The Rise of Supermarkets in Chile: Effects on Producers in the Horticulture, Dairy, and Beef Chains. Development Policy Review, 20(4), September: 459-471.
Reardon, Thomas and J.A. Berdegué
2002 The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities for Development. Development Policy Review, 20 (4), September: Pp. 371-388.
Busch, Lawrence
2002 Agribusiness and Market Linkages. In H. A. Freeman, D. D. Rohrbach, and C. Ackello-Ogutu (Eds.) Targeting Agricultural Research for Development in the Semi-Arid Tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa. Nairobi: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. Pp. 19-20
Busch, Lawrence
2002 The Implications of Global Standards for National Agricultural Research, in D. Bigman (ed.), Globalization and the Developing Countries: Emerging Strategies for Agricultural Development and Economic Growth. London: CABI, forthcoming.
Aust-Sterns, P. and Thomas Reardon
2002 Determinants and Effects of Institutional Change: A Case Study of Dry Beans Grades and Standards. Journal of Economic Issues. 36(1): 1-16.
Busch, Lawrence
2002 The Homeletics of Risk. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 15:17-29.
Middendorf, G., E. Ransom, and Lawrence Busch
2002 Current Issues in Agricultural Science and Technology Policy. In Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. Oxford, UK: UNESCO and EOLSS Publishers.
Reardon, T. and Elizabeth Farina
2002 The Rise of Private Food Quality and Safety Standards: Illustrations from Brazil. International Food and Agricultural Management Review, (4): 413-421.
Salazar, M. and L. Busch
2001 Standards and Strategies in the Michigan Potato Industry. East Lansing: Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, Research Report 576.
Busch, Lawrence
2001 Témerité Américaine et Prudence Européenne? La Recherche 339:19-23. (Also published in Spanish as Los Americanos y la Comunidad Europea. Mundo Científico 222:29-34.)
Busch, Lawrence, R. James Bingen, Craig Harris and Thomas Reardon
February 2000 Standards Issues in Agricultural Development. Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards, Michigan State University. Paper presented at USAID Washington.
Busch, Lawrence, Jim Bingen, Craig Harris, and Tom Reardon
January 2000 Markets, Rights and Equity: Food and Agricultural Standards in a shrinking World - Recommendations from an International Workshop.
Codron, J-M., P. Sterns and L. Busch.
2000 Questions de Normes Agro-Alimentaires dans le Contexte de Globalisation. Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales 55-56:45-51.
Busch, Lawrence
2000 The Moral Economy of Grades and Standards. Journal of Rural Studies 16:273-283.
Busch, Lawrence, R. James Bingen, Craig Harris and Thomas Reardon
November 9, 1998 Standards and Appellations. Invited paper presented at the Salone del Gusto, Torino, Italy.
Busch, L.
April 1997 Grades and Standards in the Social Construction of Safe Food. Invited paper presented at a conference on the Social Construction of Safe Food, Trondheim, Norway.