Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor
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Book Description
Biotechnology offers great potential to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth, food security and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Yet there are economic and institutional constraints at national and international levels that inhibit the poor people's access to appropriate biotechnological innovations. Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor addresses the major constraints. 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. Besides the expected economic and social impacts, the challenges for an adjustment of the international research structure are discussed, with a special focus on intellectual property rights and the roles of the main research organizations. Harnessing the comparative advantages of the public and private sectors through innovative partnerships is the only way forward to optimize the benefits of biotechnology for the poor. The book will be an invaluable resource for both academics and policy-makers concerned with agricultural biotechnology in context of developing-countries.
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Addresses the major constraints in agricultural biotechnology in developing countries. Provides an up-to-date analysis of the state of developments in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, discussing the challenges of adjustment to an international research structure, including that of intellectual property rights. For academics and policy makers in this field.
Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor
Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor,Matin Qaim,Anatole F. Krattiger,Joachim von Braun,Springer,0792372301,Aeronautics & Astronautics,Agricultural Biotechnology,Agriculture - General,Biotechnology,Business / Economics / Finance,Congresses,Developing countries,Development - Economic Development,Economics - General,Food Science,Government And Agriculture,Science/Mathematics,Technology,Business & Economics / Economics / General
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