Author : A. Kullaya
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Agricultural biotechnology
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Author : Calestous Juma
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Africa
ISBN :
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
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Author : United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Development
Publisher : New York : United Nations
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Norman Clark
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : S. Nchimbi-Msolla
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biosecurity
ISBN :
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251315040
This first International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers called for inclusive research and education systems to facilitate innovation; robust bridging institutions; support to family farmers; and integrated policies and increased investments to create an enabling environment for innovation and scaling up. Innovation is the process whereby individuals or organizations bring new or existing products, processes or ways of organization into use for the first time in a specific context. Innovation in agriculture cuts across all dimensions of the production cycle along the entire value chain - from crop, forestry, fishery or livestock production to the management of inputs and resources to market access. The symposium provided inspiration for innovation actors and decision makers to unlock the potential of innovation to drive socio-economic growth, ensure food and nutrition security, alleviate poverty, improve resilience to changing environments and thereby achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Author : United Nations
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9280726919
This is the second comprehensive report on the state of Africa's environment, produced in collaboration with the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). This report highlights the central position Africa's environment continues to play in sustainable development, as well as its potential to achieve progress in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. The report profiles Africa's environmental resources as an asset for the continent's development. It highlights the opportunities presented by the region's natural resource base to support the continent's development. It also underscores the concept of sustainable livelihoods, and the importance of the environmental initiatives in supporting them.
Author : Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136551050
Sustaining the new bioeconomy requires a global biotechnology governance regime to bring a large number of developing countries into the global trading system. Failure to do so will create a "genetic divide" among countries and is likely to intensify public opposition to biotechnology. This interdisciplinary collection of perspectives from the developing world - on debates over the relationships between biotechnology, biosafety, sustainable development and trade - seeks to bridge the gap between the different areas of regulatory activities and academic research and between the various stakeholders in the debate. Leading experts, writing for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, examine: the risks and opportunities of biotechnology; biosafety; intellectual property rights and related issues of access to genetic resources; benefit-sharing and traditional knowledge; biotechnological development; capacity building; the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; relevant WTO provisions; and developing countries' options in the WTO context.
Author : Chambers, Judith A.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
The African Development Bank (AfDB), in commissioning this report to be prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), highlighted the need for a comprehensive, evidenced-based review of agricultural biotechnology in order to better understand its current status, issues, constraints, and opportunities for Africa. Agricultural biotechnology comprises several scientific techniques (genetic engineering, molecular marker-assisted breeding, the use of molecular diagnostics and vaccines, and tissue culture) that are used to improve plants, animals, and microorganisms. However, in preparing this desktop analysis, IFPRI has focused on genetic modification (GM) technologies in particular and on the agricultural context in which they are being applied, because GM technologies are at the center of the controversy about biotechnologys role in Africa. In addition, because we have attempted to focus our review on peer-reviewed evidence and documented examples, the preponderance of data presented in the report is focused on genetically modified (also abbreviated GM) crops in use and under development, although we recognize the potential of the technology for livestock, fisheries, and forestry.
