AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES by Matin Qaim, Anatole F. Krattiger, Joachim Von Braun ( 9780792372301 )

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Title:

AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
TOWARDS OPTIMIZING THE BENEFITS FOR THE POOR

By:

Matin Qaim, Anatole F. Krattiger, Joachim Von Braun

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0792372301

ISBN 13:

9780792372301

Publisher:

SPRINGER

Pub. date:

31 October, 2000

Edition:

2000 ed.

Pages:

434

Description:

Biotechnology offers great potential for sustainable agricultural growth in developing countries, yet there are many institutional constraints that inhibit the poor's access to such innovations. This text explores these constraints across developing nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

X, 434 p.

Publication:

Netherlands

Imprint:

Springer

Returns:

Returnable

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