期刊名称：Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
印刷版ISSN：1068-5502
出版年度：2017
卷号：42
期号：2
页码：215-235
出版社：WAEA
摘要：The producer, consumer, and environmental impacts of a counterfactual of ShB-resistant riceproduction were calculated using data from U.S. county-level rice production in the Mid-Southand simulated Sheath Blight (ShB) infection and yield-loss rates. Results indicate a $43 millionincrease in consumer surplus via ShB alleviation, with enough additional rice produced to feed1.7 million people. A life cycle assessment (LCA) also shows that the counterfactual has lowerenvironmental impacts than the status quo of ShB-prone rice production. These estimates provideimportant economic and environmental information to donors, policy makers, and breedingprograms globally on the importance of increasing and maintaining genetic disease resistance.
