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Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor

BuchKartoniert, Paperback
434 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am03.12.2010Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000
Biotechnology offers great potential to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth, food security and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Twenty-three chapters, written by a wide range of scholars and stake-holders, provide an up-to-date analysis of agricultural biotechnology developments in Latin America, Africa and Asia.mehr
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KlappentextBiotechnology offers great potential to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth, food security and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Twenty-three chapters, written by a wide range of scholars and stake-holders, provide an up-to-date analysis of agricultural biotechnology developments in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-4419-4864-9
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2010
Erscheinungsdatum03.12.2010
AuflageSoftcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000
Seiten434 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht675 g
IllustrationenX, 434 p.
Artikel-Nr.10147724

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Introduction.- I The General Framework.- 2 Transgenic Crops Worldwide: Current Situation and Future Outlook.- 3 Molecular Tools for Plant Breeding.- 4 Managing Biosafety Capacity Development: Technical and Political Aspects.- II Regional Outlook.- 5 The Situation of Agricultural Biotechnology Capacities and Exploitation in Latin America and the Caribbean.- 6 The Current and Future Situation of Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities.- 7 Biotechnology Research in Rice for Asia: Priorities, Focus and Directions.- III Expected Impacts.- 8 The Roles of Economic Research in the Evolution of International Agricultural Biotechnology.- 9 Welfare Prospects of Transgenic Crops in Developing Countries.- 10 Institutional Issues in Biotechnology Applications: Concepts and Empirical Evidence from Kenya.- 11 The Role of Biotechnology for Food Consumers in Developing Countries.- 12 Biotechnology and Global Food Security: A Private-Sector View.- 13 Agricultural Biotechnology and the Seed Industry: Some Implications for Food Production and Security.- 14 A Danger to the World´s Food: Genetic Engineering and the Economic Interests of the Life-Science Industry.- 15 Of Terminator Genes and Developing Countries: What are the Impacts of Appropriation Technologies on Technological Diffusion?.- IV Intellectual Property Rights.- 16 The Economics of Intellectual Property Rights in the Agricultural Biotechnology Sector.- 17 Intellectual Property Rights Issues and Developing Countries: A Private-Sector Perspective.- 18 Intellectual Property Rights Challenges and International Research Collaborations in Agricultural Biotechnology.- V The Role of Different Players.- 19 The Role of the Private Sector in Providing Biotechnology Access to the Poor.- 20 Bringing the Benefitsof Biotechnology to the Poor: The Role of the CGIAR Centers.- 21 The Role of National Agricultural Research Systems in Providing Biotechnology Access to the Poor: Grassroots for an Ivory Tower?.- 22 Agricultural Biotechnology and the Poor: The Role of Development Assistance Agencies.- 23 Conclusions.- Contributing Authors.mehr

Autor

Matin Qaim is a Research Fellow at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany.Anatole F. Krattiger is Executive Director of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).Joachim von Braun is Director of ZEF.
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