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Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries

Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor

Produktform: E-Buch Text Elektronisches Buch in proprietärem

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. 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. weiterlesen

Elektronisches Format: PDF

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-4757-3178-1 / 978-1475731781 / 9781475731781

Verlag: Springer US

Erscheinungsdatum: 09.03.2013

Seiten: 434

Herausgegeben von Joachim von Braun, Matin Qaim, Anatole F. Krattiger

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