Download or read book Health Related Biotechnology in Africa written by O. O. Kale and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Freedom to Innovate written by Calestous Juma and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biotechnology in Africa written by Florence Wambugu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Florence Wambugu and Daniel Kamanga of Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International bring together expert African authorities to critique various biotechnology initiatives and project future developments in the field in Africa. For the first time, African voices from multidisciplinary fields as diverse as economics, agriculture, biotechnology, law, politics and academia, demand to be allowed to set the continent’s biotech development agenda. This book argues that there is a great future for biotechnology in Africa which sidesteps western interests that do not match those of the local populace. In these diverse chapters, Africa’s political and scientific leaders demand a greater say in how research and development funds are allocated and spent. They argue that Africa’s political leaders must see both clear benefits and have elbow-room to drive the change required. This is the way that African governments can employ workable policies, suitable biosafety legislation and regulation and respond effectively to public-private partnerships. Wambugu and Kamanga show that biotechnology has the potential to improve food security and standard of living as well as mitigate the detrimental effects of climate change on the African continent.

Download or read book Biotechnology and Health written by and published by Van Schaik Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Science and Biotechnology in Africa written by Joachim Kapalanga and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Society for the Advancement of Science in Africa (SASA) continues with its mission to advance science, improve health, and promote economic and social development on the African continent. It serves to push for continent-wide African innovation and new frontiers of scientific research. Its fifth annual conference was held jointly with the University of Rwanda under the theme “Translational Science and Biotechnology Advances in Africa”. This volume provides a selection of papers presented at the conference, encompassing diverse fields including biomedical sciences, health research, agricultural and soil sciences, advances in minimal invasive surgery, disease surveillance, pharmaceutical sciences, and genetics and genomics. The diversity of participants and spirited presentations covering over a dozen fields and sub-fields is indeed a true reflection of the tangible advancement of science in Africa.

Download or read book Biotechnology Agriculture and Food Security in Southern Africa written by Steven Were Omamo and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together experts from within and outside Africa to discuss the current status of biotechnology in southern Africa, the conceptual framework for multistakeholder dialogues, the political and ethical issues surrounding biotechnology, food safety and consumer issues, biosafety, intellectual property rights, and trade involving genetically modified foods.

Download or read book Biotechnology in Sub Saharan Africa written by John Mugabe and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Science and Biotechnology in Africa written by Joachim Kapalanga and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Society for the Advancement of Science in Africa (SASA) continues with its mission to advance science, improve health, and promote economic and social development on the African continent. It serves to push for continent-wide African innovation and new frontiers of scientific research. Its fifth annual conference was held jointly with the University of Rwanda under the theme â oeTranslational Science and Biotechnology Advances in Africaâ . This volume provides a selection of papers presented at the conference, encompassing diverse fields including biomedical sciences, health research, agricultural and soil sciences, advances in minimal invasive surgery, disease surveillance, pharmaceutical sciences, and genetics and genomics. The diversity of participants and spirited presentations covering over a dozen fields and sub-fields is indeed a true reflection of the tangible advancement of science in Africa.

Download or read book International Trends in Modern Biotechnology written by John Mugabe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Development of the Health Biotechnology Sector in South Africa microform written by Marion Nyaboke Motari and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 2004 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a qualitative study of the South African health biotechnology sector. This study uses the National System of Innovation (NSI) framework as a conceptual tool to identify and analyze the factors that encourage and/or hinder the development of the health biotechnology in South Africa. This study aims at gaining an insight of how the sector has developed within the NSI framework and provide lessons for other developing countries on how to develop a local capacity and effectively harness health biotechnology innovations to improve health. This study identifies the main themes that have arguably influenced the development of the health biotechnology in the country. These themes include, the exploitation of indigenous knowledge together with science based innovations, the importance of adopting a biotechnology strategy that identifies new opportunities and a competitive edge, the importance of knowledge networks and mission oriented strategies that target local health needs.

Download or read book Elements of Bioeconomy written by Krzysztof Biernat and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a review of the basic problems associated with the implementation of bioeconomic processes. The book contains chapters developed by teams from different countries of the world and therefore the chapters correspond to the degree of advancement of the areas within the bioeconomy in these countries. In selected areas, basic concepts and selected technological processes that create this area of the economy to ensure sustainable development have been characterized.

Download or read book Starved for Science written by Robert L. Paarlberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biotechnology.

Download or read book Agricultural Biotechnology Reconsidered written by Noah Zerbe and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Paving the Silk Road Sub Saharan Africa s Collaboration with China and India in Health Biotechnology written by Kapil Andrew Kapoor and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research aims to understand the role of China and India's collaboration with sub- Saharan African countries in health biotechnology development on the African continent. I conducted a scientometric analysis and case study research to identify the key drivers, challenges, and impacts of South-South collaboration in health biotechnology and investigated the factors that shape it. The main messages resulting from this study indicate that: China and India are active collaborators of sub-Saharan Africa in technology intensive fields, collaboration in traditional medicine is of high priority, drivers for collaboration with China and India are not uniform, and shared health concerns are a key in motivating and fostering South-South collaboration between sub-Saharan Africa, China and India. This research study illustrates that sub-Saharan Africa can harness South-South collaboration to improve capacity, innovation potentials, and promote the development of health biotechnology solutions appropriate for the African context.

Download or read book Paving the Silk Road written by Kapil Kapoor and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modifying Africa written by Florence Wambugu and published by Dr Florence Wambugu. This book was released on 2004 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Biotechnology and the Future of Africa s Agriculture written by Fikremarkos Merso Birhanu and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even after more than 15 years of the emergence of modern biotechnology in agriculture, much of Africa remains reluctant if not hostile to it. Some view modern biotechnology as the new messiah to lift Africa from starvation and food insecurity while others hold the contrary view and advise Africa to stay away from the technology for reasons ranging from health and environmental concerns to economic considerations. They fear that the unfolding 'gene revolution' is destined to fail on its promises because of the existing complex economic, social, and political circumstances in Africa as was the case in the green revolution. Africa continues to be gripped in the polarized debate so much so that it is unable to make informed decision on a technology with promises that could potentially address some of the problems of agriculture in the continent. This paper explores issues related to modern biotechnology in general and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in particular in the context of Africa. To that end, it begins by briefly exploring the debate on modern biotechnology and relating it to the context of Africa. It then presents the state of modern biotechnology in Africa and the different positions of African countries, and it subsequently examines the different concerns on GMOs in the context of Africa. The paper makes the conclusion that while technology alone may not necessarily resolve all the ills of Africa's agriculture, modern biotechnology should certainly be attractive to Africa- a continent known for a long history of poverty, chronic food insecurity and malnutrition. Modern biotechnology may assist in improving yields and quality of crops- plants could be more resistant to diseases, pests, drought or any other strenuous environmental conditions or improved strong properties or quality characteristics which are all the very evils of Africa's agriculture. The existence of divergent views on modern biotechnology should not prevent Africa from making informed decision and harnessing the benefits while at the same time ensuring its safety in terms of health and the environment as well as its relevance to the needs and priorities of the continent. Presented at the SIEL 2010 Conference in Barcelona.