Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade PromotionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Role of Biotechnology in Combating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade PromotionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Role of Biotechnology in Combating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries
Author: Chuck HagelPublisher:
ISBN: 9780756720384
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Witnesses: Roger Beachy, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center; Brian Halweil, staff researcher, Worldwatch Inst.; David Sandalow, Assist. Sec. of State for Oceans & Internat. Environ. & Scientific Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State; E. Anthony Wayne, Assistant Sec. of State for Econ. & Bus. Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State; Andrew Young, GoodWorks International; & Senators John Ashcroft, Christopher Bond, Chuck Hagel, Richard Lugar, & Paul Sarbanes. Also includes: article by Pres. Jimmy Carter entitled Who's Afraid of Genetic Engineering?,Ó Aug. 26, 1998; & article by Marc Kaufman entitled Report Says Biotech Fails to Help Neediest Farmers,Ó July 11, 2000.
Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries
Author: Matin QaimPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475731787
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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.
Agricultural Biotechnology, Poverty Reduction, and Food Security
Author: Asian Development BankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book is based on a study conducted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), together with the Australian Centre for International, Agricultural Research and the Australian Agency for International Development, to examine the opportunities and risks of using biotechnology in reducing poverty and achieving food security in Asia.
The Role of Biotechnology in Combating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade PromotionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Who will be fed in the 21st century?
Author: Keith WiebePublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896297047
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Global food production has more than doubled over the past 40 years, growing faster than population, and will likely keep pace in the 21st century. Yet today one-eighth of the world's people lack secure access to the food they need to live active and healthy lives. This volume describes how together innovative technologies and sound policies can help close the global food gap -- the gap between demand for and supply of food. Although markets will continue to supply sufficient food to those with money to spend, getting food to the poor will require that government policies and investments supplement the operation of markets in three critical areas: protecting the natural resources on which agriculture depends; focusing the benefits of agricultural research, including biotechnology, on the needs of small farmers in developing countries; and ensuring that access to food, resources, and income-generating opportunities is equitable and secure. Contributors to this book show how soil degradation, biotechnology, and other resources and technologies might affect the future supply of food, as well as how poverty, conflict, and gender roles might affect demand. They also consider the roles that institutions must play in meeting the challenge of global hunger. Finally, they outline the policy priorities required to achieve a food-secure world in the 21st century.
Sociopolitical Effects of New Biotechnologies in Developing Countries.
Author: Klaus M. LeisingerPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896296091
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Assuring food security for the next 25 years requires meeting a number of political, social, economic, and technical challenges. One of these is the successful use of new biotechnologies in agriculture. Research in recombinant genetics and biotechnology aims to develop plant varieties that provide reliable high yields at the same or lower costs by breeding in qualities such as resistance to disease, pests, and stress factors such as aridity. Realization of these goals could lead to tremendous gains in food production. However, biotechnology is now evoking the same objections that have been raised against the Green Revolutionthat its benefits are distributed inequitably in favor of the large, rich farmers and that it is potentially environmentally destructive. In this brief, Leisinger discusses the need for biotechnology and its sociopolitical ramifications and he looks at the roles played by the public and private sectors. In conclusion, the author states that biotechnology offers no silver bullet for food security there are no silver bulletsbut biotechnology is an important instrument in the difficult fight against hunger. The sociopolitical obstacles must be removed not only for the successful implementation of biotechnology, but also for an equitable and sustainable tomorrow for the world.
Modifying Africa
Author: Florence WambuguPublisher: Dr Florence Wambugu
ISBN: 9780975410103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Is the future of Africa full of gloom and doom or is there a glimpse of hope on the horizon? Rather than debate this issue, Dr. Florence Wambugu gives you a hands-on answer in her book, "Modifying Africa: How Biotechnology Can Benefit the Poor and Hungry; a Case Study from Kenya. She demonstrates how a simple agricultural technology transfer project is helping to break the backbone of poverty and famine. In Africa, the continent where Dr. Wambugu was born, more than 5,000 people die each day from lack of food. Over 30 million children do not have the required nutrition to live a normal healthy life.
Food Security and Safety
Author: Olubukola Oluranti BabalolaPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303050672X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
This book focuses on food security and safety issues in Africa, a continent presently challenged with malnutrition and food insecurity. The continuous increase in the human population of Africa will lead to higher food demands, and climate change has already affected food production in most parts of Africa, resulting in drought, reduced crop yields, and loss of livestock and income. For Africa to be food-secure, safe and nutritious food has to be available, well-distributed, and sufficient to meet people’s food requirements. Contributors to Food Security and Safety: African Perspectives offer solutions to the lack of adequate safe and nutritious food in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as highlight the positive efforts being made to address this lack through a holistic approach. The book discusses the various methods used to enhance food security, such as food fortification, fermentation, genetic modification, and plant breeding for improved yield and resistance to diseases. Authors emphasize the importance of hygiene and food safety in food preparation and preservation, and address how the constraints of climate change could be overcome using smart crops. As a comprehensive reference text, Food Security and Safety: African Perspectives seeks to address challenges specific to the African continent while enhancing the global knowledge base around food security, food safety, and food production in an era of rapid climate change.
Biotechnology and Food Security
Author: Sujata K. DassPublisher: Gyan Books
ISBN: 9788182051003
Category : Agricultural biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The present book relates to benefits of bio technology in providing food security, alleviation of poverty and agriculture and rural development.. This book also focuses on framework for food chain approach to food safety and evaluation of technology oriented food security. The book is highly informative and of use to students, researchers, scientists and policy planners working in different direction like agriculture, food and bio technology.