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The most important challenge in Socio-Economic Assessment (SEA) lies in developing suitable frameworks and guidelines that can be implemented. As many factors and values have to be considered in any such assessment, inevitably issues on methodologies and approaches have to be addressed. Since SE Assessment goes beyond traditional economic assessment including Cost–Benefit Analysis, any discussion on SEA will also be a discussion on alternative frameworks, methodologies and bringing together economic factors and non-economic factors. This chapter discusses the approaches explained in the literature to estimate the various impacts and what costs and factors are considered in different methodologies.
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On SLOs see van Putten et al. (2018).
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See Sanchez et al. (2016) for an example of such an analysis.
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In fact there are not many studies that look into gender dimension in adoption of LMOs. A much cited study (Subramanian et al. 2010) shows that cultivation of Bt crops has positive impacts on women’s employment.’
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Chaturvedi, S., Srinivas, K.R., Kumar, A. (2019). Frameworks and Guidelines for Socio-economic Assessment. In: Chaturvedi, S., Srinivas, K. (eds) Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of Genetically Modified Crops. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9511-7_11
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