Download or read book The Role of Biotechnology in Combating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Biotechnology in Combating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of biotechnology in combating poverty and hunger in developing countries : hearing before the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, July 12, 2000.
Download or read book The Role of Biotechnology in Combating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries written by Chuck Hagel and published by . This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witnesses: Roger Beachy, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center; Brian Halweil, staff researcher, Worldwatch Inst.; David Sandalow, Assist. Sec. of State for Oceans & Internat. Environ. & Scientific Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State; E. Anthony Wayne, Assistant Sec. of State for Econ. & Bus. Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State; Andrew Young, GoodWorks International; & Senators John Ashcroft, Christopher Bond, Chuck Hagel, Richard Lugar, & Paul Sarbanes. Also includes: article by Pres. Jimmy Carter entitled Who's Afraid of Genetic Engineering?,Ó Aug. 26, 1998; & article by Marc Kaufman entitled Report Says Biotech Fails to Help Neediest Farmers,Ó July 11, 2000.
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Download or read book THE ROLE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY IN COMBATING POVERTY AND HUNGER IN DEVELOPING HEARING S HRG 106 766 COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS UN written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 2001* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Biotechnology Poverty Reduction and Food Security written by Asian Development Bank and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on a study conducted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), together with the Australian Centre for International, Agricultural Research and the Australian Agency for International Development, to examine the opportunities and risks of using biotechnology in reducing poverty and achieving food security in Asia.
Download or read book Who will be fed in the 21st century written by Keith Wiebe and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2001-11-07 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global food production has more than doubled over the past 40 years, growing faster than population, and will likely keep pace in the 21st century. Yet today one-eighth of the world's people lack secure access to the food they need to live active and healthy lives. This volume describes how together innovative technologies and sound policies can help close the global food gap -- the gap between demand for and supply of food. Although markets will continue to supply sufficient food to those with money to spend, getting food to the poor will require that government policies and investments supplement the operation of markets in three critical areas: protecting the natural resources on which agriculture depends; focusing the benefits of agricultural research, including biotechnology, on the needs of small farmers in developing countries; and ensuring that access to food, resources, and income-generating opportunities is equitable and secure. Contributors to this book show how soil degradation, biotechnology, and other resources and technologies might affect the future supply of food, as well as how poverty, conflict, and gender roles might affect demand. They also consider the roles that institutions must play in meeting the challenge of global hunger. Finally, they outline the policy priorities required to achieve a food-secure world in the 21st century.
Download or read book The Role of Biotechnology in Combating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries written by Matin Qaim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-10-31 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Sociopolitical Effects of New Biotechnologies in Developing Countries written by Klaus M. Leisinger and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1995 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assuring food security for the next 25 years requires meeting a number of political, social, economic, and technical challenges. One of these is the successful use of new biotechnologies in agriculture. Research in recombinant genetics and biotechnology aims to develop plant varieties that provide reliable high yields at the same or lower costs by breeding in qualities such as resistance to disease, pests, and stress factors such as aridity. Realization of these goals could lead to tremendous gains in food production. However, biotechnology is now evoking the same objections that have been raised against the Green Revolutionthat its benefits are distributed inequitably in favor of the large, rich farmers and that it is potentially environmentally destructive. In this brief, Leisinger discusses the need for biotechnology and its sociopolitical ramifications and he looks at the roles played by the public and private sectors. In conclusion, the author states that biotechnology offers no silver bullet for food security there are no silver bulletsbut biotechnology is an important instrument in the difficult fight against hunger. The sociopolitical obstacles must be removed not only for the successful implementation of biotechnology, but also for an equitable and sustainable tomorrow for the world.
Download or read book Hunger and Hope written by George W. Norton and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readable, thought-provoking, and beneficial for those who want to comprehend the plight of the rural poor, Hunger and Hope examines the world of those living near, on, and over the edge of poverty in developing countries. Their aspirations, struggles, and daily challenges are revealed with compassion and genuine understanding of the risks they face to sustain themselves and their families. The text is rich with lucid and methodical observations of the economic processes that shape agricultural development in impoverished countries. The author builds in an imaginative way on his extensive experience assisting farmers and assessing the impacts of agricultural interventions. Real-world illustrations of the policies and practices that not only create opportunities and food security but also create hardships show that, while progress has been made in reducing poverty and hunger, there is a need to do more.
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 for Sustainable Agriculture written by Ram Lakhan Singh and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture: Emerging Approaches and Strategies is an outstanding collection of current research that integrates basic and advanced concepts of agricultural biotechnology with future development prospects. Using biotechnology with sustainable agriculture effectively contributes to gains in agricultural productivity, enhanced food security, reduced poverty and malnutrition, and more ecologically sustainable means of food production. Written by a panel of experts, this book is unique in its coverage of the broad area of biotechnology for sustainable agriculture. It includes intriguing topics and discussions of areas such as recombinant DNA technology and genetic engineering. Identifies and explores biotechnological tools to enhance sustainability Encompasses plant and microbial biotechnology, nanotechnology and genetic engineering Focuses on plant biotechnology and crop improvement to increase yield and resilience Summarizes the impact of climate change on agriculture, fisheries and livestock
Download or read book Farming Systems and Poverty written by John A. Dixon and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Download or read book World Hunger written by Joseph Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition of this text includes substantial new material on hunger in the aftermath of the Cold War; global food productioin versus population growth; changing demographics and falling birth rates around the world; the shifting focus of foreign assistance in the new world order; structural adjustment and other budget-slashing policies; trade liberalization and free trade agreements; famine and humanitarian interventions; and the thrid worldization of developed nations.
