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Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries

Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor

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Editors:
  1. Matin Qaim

    1. Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany

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  2. Anatole F. Krattiger

    1. International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), Ithaca, USA

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  3. Joachim Braun

    1. Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Matin Qaim, Anatole F. Krattiger, Joachim von Braun
      Pages 1-6

  3. The General Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-10
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    2. Transgenic Crops Worldwide: Current Situation and Future Outlook

      • Clive James
      Pages 11-23

    3. Molecular Tools for Plant Breeding

      • Christian Jung
      Pages 25-37

    4. Managing Biosafety Capacity Development: Technical and Political Aspects

      • André de Kathen
      Pages 39-67

  5. Expected Impacts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-124
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    2. The Roles of Economic Research in the Evolution of International Agricultural Biotechnology

      • Gregory Graff, David Zilberman, Cherisa Yarkin
      Pages 125-154

    3. Welfare Prospects of Transgenic Crops in Developing Countries

      • Matin Qaim
      Pages 155-173

    4. Institutional Issues in Biotechnology Applications: Concepts and Empirical Evidence from Kenya

      • Margaret Karembu, Michael Njuguna
      Pages 175-188

    5. The Role of Biotechnology for Food Consumers in Developing Countries

      • Howarth E. Bouis
      Pages 189-213

    6. Biotechnology and Global Food Security: A Private-Sector View

      • Walter Dannigkeit
      Pages 215-222

    7. Agricultural Biotechnology and the Seed Industry: Some Implications for Food Production and Security

      • Suri Sehgal
      Pages 223-228

    8. A Danger to the World’s Food: Genetic Engineering and the Economic Interests of the Life-Science Industry

      • Christoph Then
      Pages 229-236

    9. Of Terminator Genes and Developing Countries: What are the Impacts of Appropriation Technologies on Technological Diffusion?

      • Timo Goeschl, Timothy Swanson
      Pages 237-253

  6. Intellectual Property Rights

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-257
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany

    Matin Qaim, Joachim Braun

  • International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), Ithaca, USA

    Anatole F. Krattiger

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries

  • Book Subtitle: Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor

  • Editors: Matin Qaim, Anatole F. Krattiger, Joachim Braun

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3178-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7230-1Published: 31 October 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4864-9Published: 03 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-3178-1Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 434

  • Topics: Agricultural Economics, Chemistry/Food Science, general, Economic Growth, Development Economics

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