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Print: $21.62 Download: $12.50 Prepared Testimony of James Newcomb, Managing Director for Research, Bio Economic Research Associates before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - November 9, 2005
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Print: $105.16 Download: $63.48 This book analyzes recent and expected impacts of the advance and adoption of new gene sequencing and synthesis technologies and techniques, and looks in depth at their likely significance in three strategically important sectors of the US economy: energy, chemicals, and vaccines.
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Print: $26.32 Download: $12.50 This is a short paper prepared by bio-era to update members of the bio-era "Thinking Ahead" service, on how bio-era assesses pandemic risk.
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Print: $51.97 Download: $25.00 McDonald’s Corporation’s recent decision to require its meat suppliers to phase out the use of certain antibiotics for animal growth promotion is a watershed event for the meat production industry. McDonald’s, the largest single buyer of meat in the U.S., and much of the world, is using its buying power to manage a growing array of attributes linked to its products and brand identity including consumer “intangibles” related to social responsibility, sustainable food supply, animal welfare, and human health. Other companies, both in the fast food industry and in grocery stores, are likely to take similar steps to manage product attributes related to human health. Responding to these new requirements will reinforce changes already underway in the meat supply industry, opening new avenues for product differentiation, tightening the links between meat suppliers and their customers, and spurring new investment in quality assurance and traceability.
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Print: $52.07 Download: $29.95 This is an illustrated transcript of a bio-era teleconference, in which bio-era experts and guest commentators address the implications
of ongoing advances in enabling biotechnologies as they affect stakeholders in the agriculture and food systems.
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Print: $76.77 Download: $62.50 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stands at the center of a storm over the re-registration of atrazine, one of the most widely used herbicides in the world. Atrazine is being reviewed as part of EPA’s ongoing program to evaluate older pesticides to ensure that they meet current health and environmental safety standards; the agency’s review entails a comprehensive reassessment of existing restrictions on the use of the herbicide. Recent scientific reports have suggested that atrazine disrupts the hormonal systems of certain amphibians, and may be linked to worldwide population declines among these species. These studies have been challenged by other scientists, however, who claim that the evidence of such effects is inconclusive.
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Print: $21.22 Download: FREE This is a short essay by bio-era Managing Director for Research, on business continuity planning for influenza pandemic.
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Print: $76.37 Download: $49.50 This is a bio-era update report regarding recent events of significance around the H5N1 influenza virus.
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Print: $51.17 Download: $29.50 This is a bio-era H5N1 Signpost Alert on the Tanah Karo cluster of H5N1 infections in Indonesia in May of 2006.
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Print: $50.72 Download: $29.50 This is a bio-era H5N1 Signpost Alert for participants in bio-era's "Thinking Ahead" service.
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Print: $76.72 Download: $49.50 This is bio-era's first report on the outbreak in 2004 of H5N1 Avian Influenza in Southeast Asia.
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Print: $127.82 Download: $93.75 This is a bio-era update report to members of the bio-era "Thinking Ahead" service on the global status of H5N1 avian influenza.
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Print: $255.27 Download: $195.00 This report is a comprehensive global review of trends in adoption and acceptance around agricultural biotechnology crops. The report seeks to characterize developments regionally -- Africa, Latin America, Asia, etc., -- and for selected key countries within each region (Brazil, Colombia, etc.). It also characterizes who the key institutional stakeholders are in each selected country, and where they stand on the GMO/agbiotech debate.
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Print: $132.70 Download: FREE This is a bio-era analysis of the impact of the economic crisis on the biofuels industry.
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Print: $148.32 Download: FREE In recent years, rising prices for agricultural and energy commodities have heightened interest in the economic fundamentals governing these markets. This report presents bio-era’s latest thinking on some of these fundamentals, and how they may be changing in unanticipated ways. Part of what we explore here concerns the interactions between the principal “long forces” affecting these markets, including the forces of climate change, the limits of conventional crude oil supply expansion, and the impacts of continued underlying growth in global populations and economies. Not surprisingly, we foresee these long forces acting in combination to place additional upward pressure on fuel and food prices, and we present a model for thinking about the dynamics at work in what we hope is a simple, but useful, way.
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Print: $10.90 Download: FREE One somewhat unexpected benefit of continued global concern regarding the threat posed by H5N1 avian influenza, is the emergence of many new technologies for managing the H5N1 threat, and responding to H5N1 disease outbreaks. Some of these technologies are the direct result of government investment in the research and development for specific countermeasures. We probably would not, for example, have viable H5N1 vaccine had the US government not been willing to commit in advance to a substantial purchase of H5N1 vaccine, thus in effect, funding the required R&D effort.
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Print: $7.90 Welcome to the Paleobiotic Age. Just as today we look back somewhat wistfully on our quaint Paleolithic — literally “old stone” — ancestors, so will our descendants see the present age as that of “old biology”, inhabited by Paleobiotic Man. The technologies we use to manipulate biological systems are experiencing dramatic improvement1,2, and as a result are driving change throughout human economies.
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Print: $6.30 Download: FREE The words “biotechnology” and “biotech” are often used by the press and industry observers in very limited and inconsistent ways. Those words may be used to describe only pharmaceutical products, or in another context only the industry surrounding genetically modified plants, while in yet another context a combination of biofuels, plastics, chemicals, and plant extracts. The total economic value of biotechnology companies is therefore difficult to assess, and it is challenging to disentagle the component of revenue due each to public and private firms.
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Print: $7.30 Download: FREE What major developments and possible surprises lie ahead for the bioeconomy in 2008? Bio-era forsees an exceptionally volatile year ahead in global agricultural commodity markets, with significant long-term implications for the biofuels industry and other parts of the bioeconomy.
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Print: $7.30 Download: FREE During the first quarter of 2008, we are once again witness to a seasonal resurgence of reported disease outbreaks due to H5N1 avian influenza. So far this year, human cases and deaths due to H5N1 have been confirmed in Indonesia, Vietnam and China. These sporadic human cases fall within the context of resurgent animal outbreaks of H5N1 disease across 18 countries since December 2007. Most of these outbreaks have occurred in poultry populations, including chickens, turkeys, geese, and ducks. However, a few in China, Poland, and the United Kingdom have involved wild birds.* The resurgent pattern of avian and human cases reminds us that H5N1 remains endemic across a broad swath of Eurasian, Middle-East, and Aftican geography, and can be expected to periodically infect both commercial and domestic poultry flock in those regions of the world for years to come. What follows is a brief summary of significant H5N1 events so far in 2008.
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Print: $152.67 Download: $195.00 This is the illustrated transcript of a bio-era web teleconference on "Thinking Ahead: Anticipating the Early Impacts of an Avian Influenza Pandemic" held on March 9, 2005.
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Print: $77.72 Download: $49.50 This is an illustrated transcript of a bio-era web teleconference on the challenge of corporate pandemic planning and preparedness held on May 10, 2005.
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Print: $77.32 Download: $49.50 This is an illustrated transcript of a bio-era web teleconference on the evolving challenge of defining and communicating pandemic risk that took place on June 22, 2006 and featured guest commentators, Dr. David Nabarro, UN Senior System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza, Dr. William Karesh, Director of Field Veterinary Services, Wildlife Conservation Society, and independent risk communications consultant, Dr. Peter Sandmann.
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Print: $77.37 Download: $49.50 This is the illustrated transcript of a bio-era web teleconference that took place on August 23, 2006 to discuss the uses and value of pandemic plans. Guest commentators included Michael Robach, VP, Food Safety at Cargill, David Parsley, Sr. VP, Applebee's, Dr. Rob Goldsmith, Acting Medical Director, GE, and Gil Meyer, Issues Manager, DuPont.
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Print: $152.17 Download: $97.50 This is the illustrated transcript of a web teleconference on the economic and evolutionary significance of recent developments regarding the H5N1 virus which took place on March 21, 2006
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Print: $77.22 Download: $49.50 This is the illustrated transcript of a bio-era "Thinking Ahead" web teleconference assessing the spread of H5N1 which occurred on January 31, 2006.
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Print: $297.72 Download: $195.00 In this report, bio-era assesses the current avian influenza situation and explores the economic and business implications of a global pandemic.
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Print: $295.00 Download: $195.00 In this report, bio-era develops six scenarios to describe plausible outcomes that could emerge from the current avian influenza crisis.
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Print: $226.67 Download: $195.00 In this report, bio-era examines crop-based production of biopharmaceuticals, and how this will impact the farm sector.
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Print: $397.77 Download: $495.00 In this report, bio-era examines the economic drivers and constraints for the use of crop plants as production platforms for industrial and pharmaceutical compounds.
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Print: $252.47 Download: $250.00 This is an independent analysis by bio-era done in early 2003 of the structure of the agricultural biotechnology business and the trends affecting consolidation in the industry.
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Print: $197.52 Download: $145.00 This is an illustrated and edited transcript of a bio-era webinar, held on January 10, 2007 to update bio-era clients and listeners on the global spread and status of H5N1 influenza and countermeasure developments.
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Print: $6.50 Download: FREE The Sustainable Biofuels Lab is a multi-stakeholder project to identify requirements for, and accelerate the achievement of, sustainable biofuels at scale.
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Print: $8.50 Climate change is already evident in the Hudson Valley — and is predicted to accelerate in the coming years. Most climate scientists expect climate in the Hudson Valley to change dramatically over the course of the coming century. The Rising Waters project aims to strengthen the preparedness and adaptive capacity of the Hudson River Estuary Watershed (HREW) to meet the impacts of future climate change.
To help people think about the expected local impacts of climate change — and how the Hudson Valley might prepare for them, the Rising Waters project used scenario planning methodologies. Creating scenarios educates participants on important aspects of complicated problems and helps to build a shared conceptual framework for dialogue leading to potential solutions. Scenarios build adaptive capacity because they build shared group understanding.
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Print: $31.50 Climate change is already evident in the Hudson Valley — and is predicted to accelerate in the coming years. Most climate scientists expect climate in the Hudson Valley to change dramatically over the course of the coming century. The Rising Waters project aims to strengthen the preparedness and adaptive capacity of the Hudson River Estuary Watershed (HREW) to meet the impacts of future climate change.
To help people think about the expected local impacts of climate change — and how the Hudson Valley might prepare for them, the Rising Waters project used scenario planning methodologies. Creating scenarios educates participants on important aspects of complicated problems and helps to build a shared conceptual framework for dialogue leading to potential solutions. Scenarios build adaptive capacity because they build shared group understanding.
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Print: $11.30 The U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for transportation fuels sets minimum levels of renewable fuels that must be blended into gasoline and other transportation fuels from 2006 to 2022. Specific requirements for blending advanced biofuels, including cellulosic biofuels and biomass-based biodiesel, begin at 0.6 billion gallons per year in 2009 and rise to 21 billion gallons in 2022. The RFS levels for advanced biofuels production will drive the creation of a major new industry, creating a foundation for future technology development and commercial growth.
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Print: $7.10 Download: FREE Bio-era estimated the economic impacts of selected emerging infectious diseases occurring between 1995 and 2008 based on information available from government and academic studies, news reports, and direct communications with health experts. Our approach has been to estimate, where possible, the full range of economic impacts caused by disease outbreaks including the direct, indirect, and systemic costs of disease outbreaks.
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Print: $5.90 Download: FREE Technological advances in disease surveillance and monitoring, coupled with innovative public-private partnerships, are opening new avenues for infectious disease control and prevention. Integrated approaches to understanding disease emergence factors spanning human, domestic animal, and wildlife populations are gaining support and creating alignment among diverse institutions and stakeholders. These stakeholders include the food industry, the wildlife conservation community, government agencies responsible for human and animal health, and other organizations, ranging from the high tech industry to pharmaceutical companies.
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Print: $8.50 Download: FREE Prepared on behalf of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Countries that adopt integrated approaches to health promotion and disease prevention for humans, domestic animals, and wildlife may be able to reap significant net economic benefits compared with traditional approaches that are more fragmented and less effective. Emerging infectious diseases in humans and animals are imposing billions of dollars of economic damages to economies around the world. Prevention and management of disease outbreaks can play a significant role in a nation’s overall economic performance. For example, even though relatively few Canadians were infected by the 2003 SARS outbreak in Canada, the disease significantly affected the country’s overall economic performance in the second quarter of that year.
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Print: $51.32 This is a bio-era Issue Alert regarding the growing importance of issues affecting the future of international trade in biofuels -- particularly ethanol.
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Print: $11.30 Download: FREE This document presents the results of a global survey of thought leaders on their attitudes toward agricultural biotechnology carried out by bio-era in conjunction with McCallister Associates in 2005.
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Print: $297.42 Download: $195.00 This is an illustrated transcript of a bio-era teleconference on using scenarios for pandemic planning and preparedness held on April 4, 2005.
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Print: $77.67 Download: $49.50 This is an illustrated transcript of a bio-era web teleconference updating participants on the global H5N1 situation and reviewing the bio-era scenarios framework. Guest commentators on the call include Charles Reimenschneider of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and Dr. William Karesh, Director of Field Veterinary Services for the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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Print: $252.37 Download: $250.00 This is a bio-era analysis of the SARS outbreak, and its broader significance for the challenge of new emerging diseases, and biosecurity as a whole.
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Print: $10.90 Download: FREE This is a bio-era biofuels global outlook done in 2006.
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