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.

This book is a compendium of knowledge, experience and insight on agriculture, biotechnology and development. Beginning with an account of GM crop adoptions and attitudes towards them, the book assesses numerous crucial processes, concluding with detai

This work integrates basic biotechnological methodologies with up-to-date agricultural practices, offering solutions to specific agricultural needs and problems from plant and crop yield to animal husbandry. It presents and evaluates the limitations of classical methodologies and the potential of novel and emergent agriculturally related biotechnologies.

This book covers a range of important topics on crop and animal genetics, breeding and genomics, as well as biodiversity and genetic resources conservation and utilization reflecting three thematic sections of working groups of the Biotechnology Society of Nigeria. The topics range from agricultural biotechnology, including genetically modified organisms and gene-editing for agronomically important traits in tropical crops, to Nigeria’s mega biodiversity and genetic resources conservation. This book will engender a deeper understanding of underpinning mechanisms, technologies, processes and science–policy nexus that has placed Nigeria as a leader in biotechnology in Africa. The book will be useful reference material for scientists and researchers working in the fields of food and agricultural biotechnology, bioinformatics, plant and animal genetics, breeding and genomics, genetic resources conservation and enhancement. Emphasizes recent advances in biotechnologies that could ameliorate the high-level global food and nutrition insecurity through plant and animal genetics, breeding, as well as genomics Provides detailed information towards harnessing indigenous bioresources for food and nutrition security and climate change adaptation Introduces new frontiers in the area of genomics, most especially their relevant applications in crop and animal breeding Reviews biotechniques that could enhance plant genetic resources conservation and utilization Discusses current biotechnological approaches to exploit genetic resources including the development of synthetic hexaploid wheat (SHW) for crop adaptation to the increasingly changing global climate

The Textbook On Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Provides Comprehensively The Fundamental Concepts And Principles In Biotechnology To Expatiate And Substantiate Its Numerous Modern Applications With Regard To The Spectacular Development In The Pharmaceutical Industry. In A Broader Perspective, The Students Studying Biotechnology At Undergraduate And Postgraduate Levels Shall Be Grossly Benefited By Its Well-Planned Systematically Developed, Structured, Illustrated, Expanded, Elaborated, And Profusely Exemplified Subject Matter.It Essentially Comprise Five Major Chapters, Namely: Immunology And Immunological Preparations; Genetic Recombination; Antibiotics; Microbial Transformations; And Enzyme Immobilization. Besides, There Are Five Auxiliary Chapters, Namely, Advent Of Biotechnology; Biosensor Technology; Bioinformatics And Data Mining; Regulatory Issues In Biotechnology; And Safety In Biotechnology, Which Have Been Specifically Included So As To Stimulate The Students, Interest And Broaden Their Horizon Of Knowledge And Wisdom.The Authors Earnestly Believe That The Wide Coverage Of Various Topics Mentioned Above Would Certainly Render Pharmaceutical Biotechnology To Serve As An Exclusive Source Of Information S, Ideas, Inspirations Towards Research, And Finding Newer Possible Practical Solutions To Problems Encountered In The Ever Green Pasture Using Knowledge Of Biotechnology In The Pharmaceutical Industry.

Following on from earlier titles in this series, this volume presents further material generated by the World Bank/ISNAR/Australian government biotechnology study.It covers the present status and future prospects for the application of biotechnology to solve agricultural and environmental problems in a number of developing countries. Particular focus is given on to developments that have taken place over the last decade.