• ISBN13: 9788132119722
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publisher Imprint: SAGE India
• Publication Date: May 16, 2014
• Pages: 396
• Original Price: INR 1195.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 567 grams

<p style="text-align: justify;">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. Conditions and circumstances in countries like Cambodia, China, India, Korea, Nepal, Philippines, and Thailand are quite different and provide a mosaic of varied experiences in bio-innovation that include shrimp farming, GMO cotton, bio gas, organic farming, and vaccines.<br /> <br /> Offering important insights into various forms of bio-innovation efforts and their effects on poverty alleviation, this volume is divided into three major themes that organize the main sections of the book&mdash;benefits for the poor: actual, direct, and prospective benefits for the poor; absence of positive impacts and institutional constraints; pro-poor drivers and embedding in anti-poverty alleviation.<br /> <br /> The central questions addressed here are:<br /> &bull;<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Ways and circumstances in which certain forms of bio-innovations affect the poor and enable poverty alleviation.&nbsp;<br /> &bull;<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Critical factors and conditions for improving the positive impact of bio-innovations on poverty alleviation.<br /> &bull;<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Poverty alleviation goals should be the point of departure in rationalizing, identifying and designing appropriate and relevant bio-innovation programs. <div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div>