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.
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―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.
The central questions addressed here are:
• Ways and circumstances in which certain forms of bio-innovations affect the poor and enable poverty alleviation.
• Critical factors and conditions for improving the positive impact of bio-innovations on poverty alleviation.
• Poverty alleviation goals should be the point of departure in rationalizing, identifying and designing appropriate and relevant bio-innovation programs.
Author(s): Edsel E. Sajor (editor), Bernadette P. Resurreccion (editor), Sudip K. Rakshit (editor)
Edition: 1
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 396
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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 Vietnam
7 - 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 Poor
13 - 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
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