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Ex-ante Assessment of Bt-Cotton in Uganda

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Ex-ante Assessment of Bt-Cotton in Uganda
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/24041
 
Creator International Food Policy Research Institution (IFPRI)
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This dataset is a result of household surveys conducted in two major cotton producing districts, Lira and Kasese, in Uganda. The information were mainly collected on household characteristics, cotton production and current practices. The cotton producing villages were identified with the help of local extension agents. Out of these cotton produ
cing villages, three villages in Lira and seven in Kasese were selected. A total of 150 household heads were interviewed, 30 in Lira and 120 in Kasese. These households were selected randomly from a list of producers provided by a ginneries operating in each district. The number of households selected from a village followed a qualitative evaluation by local extension agents of cotton produced in in each village. The information was primarily collected for 2007 growing season. Some additional information was also collected for 2006 growing season.
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Social Sciences
Biotechnology
Transgenic plants
Risk assessment
Economic aspects
Biosafety regulations
Biotechnological safety
Socioeconomic development
Genetically engineered organisms
Genetically modified foods
Data collection
Genetic heterogeneity
Ex-ante impact assessment
Ex-post impact assessment
Developing countries
Cotton
 
Date 2008
 
Contributor IFPRI-Data
 
Type Sample Survey Data (SSD)