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Bio-innovation and poverty alleviation : case studies from Asia / edited by Edsel E. Sajor, Bernadette P. Resurreccion, Sudip K. Rakshit.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--Asia.
- Poverty.
- Biotechnology--Economic aspects--Asia.
- Biotechnology.
- Technological innovations--Economic aspects--Asia.
- Technological innovations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : SAGE, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The proposed volume attempts to understand how forms of bio-innovation might be linked to the problem of poverty and its reduction through an inquiry into a number of empirical cases of present-day bio-innovations in Asia.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part 1 - Actual, Direct,and Prospective Benefits for the Poor; 1 - Biosand Water Filter and Poor Households in the Philippines; 2 - Bio-innovation in Edible Mushroom Industry and Poverty Alleviation in China; 3 - Commercialization of Aqua culture in Nepal: Understanding Its Gender Implications; 4 - Improved Vegetable Production in Northern Thailand: Is the Innovation Pro-poor and Gender Sensitive?; 5 - 'Lazy Garden' Innovation as a Resilience-building Strategy; Part 2 - Absence of Positive Impacts and Institutional Constraints
- 6 - Shrimp Probiotics, Social Differentiation, and Shrimp Farmers in Vietnam7 - Biochar Stoves: An Innovation Studies Perspective; 8 - Vaccine R&D in Thailand: Meeting Public Health Needs through Collective IPR Management; 9 - Biogas Program and Its Impact on the Poor in Vietnam; 10 - Harnessing Poverty Alleviation Potential of Biofertilizer in the Philippines; Part 3 - Pro-poor Drivers and Embeddingin Anti-poverty Alleviation; 11 - Knowing Earth and Sky:The Transmission of Knowledge in Natural Farming in Chiang Mai Province
- 12 - Changing Trends of Bio-innovation in Pharmaceutical Industry: Inclusion and Exclusion of Poor13 - Bt Cotton in China: Implications for the Rural Poor and Poverty Alleviation; 14 - Biofertilizer-based Bio-innovation: Relevance to Poverty Welfare; About the Editors and Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 93-5150-458-1
- 93-5150-803-X
- 93-5150-150-7
- 9789351508038
- OCLC:
- 986743857
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