AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: TOWARDS OPTIMIZING THE BENEFITS FOR THE POOR by Matin Qaim (Editor), Anatole F. Krattiger (Editor), Joachim Von Braun (Editor) ( 9781441948649 )

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Title:

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

By:

Matin Qaim (Editor), Anatole F. Krattiger (Editor), Joachim Von Braun (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1441948643

ISBN 13:

9781441948649

Publisher:

SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK INC.

Pub. date:

3 December, 2010

Edition:

1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2000

Pages:

434

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:

biography

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Imprint:

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Returns:

Returnable

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