Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries
Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor
Editors: Qaim, Matin, Krattiger, Anatole F., von Braun, Joachim (Eds.)
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-6
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Transgenic Crops Worldwide: Current Situation and Future Outlook
Pages 11-23
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Molecular Tools for Plant Breeding
Pages 25-37
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Managing Biosafety Capacity Development: Technical and Political Aspects
Pages 39-67
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The Situation of Agricultural Biotechnology Capacities and Exploitation in Latin America and the Caribbean
Pages 73-90
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries
- Book Subtitle
- Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor
- Editors
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- Matin Qaim
- Anatole F. Krattiger
- Joachim von Braun
- Copyright
- 2000
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4757-3178-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4757-3178-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-7923-7230-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4419-4864-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 434
- Topics
