Biotechnology Agriculture And Food Security In Southern Africa
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Biotechnology Agriculture and Food Security in Southern Africa
Author | : Steven Were Omamo,Klaus von Grebmer |
Publsiher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780896297371 |
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This book brings together experts from within and outside Africa to discuss the current status of biotechnology in southern Africa, the conceptual framework for multistakeholder dialogues, the political and ethical issues surrounding biotechnology, food safety and consumer issues, biosafety, intellectual property rights, and trade involving genetically modified foods.
Genetically modified crops in Africa
Author | : Falck-Zepeda, José Benjamin,Gruère, Guillaume P.,Sithole-Niang, Idah |
Publsiher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2013-10-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780896297951 |
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A variable climate, political instability, and other constraints have limited agricultural development in African countries south of the Sahara. Genetically modified (GM) crops are one tool for enhancing agricultural productivity and food security despite such constraints. Genetically Modified Crops in Africa: Economic and Policy Lessons from Countries South of the Sahara investigates how this tool might be effectively used by evaluating the benefits, costs, and risks for African countries of adopting GM crops. The authors gather together studies on GM crops economic effects and impact on trade, how consumers view such crops, and other issues. They find that GM crops have had, on average, a positive economic effect in the nations where they were used and identify future steps for enhancing GM crop adoptions positive effects. Promising policy initiatives include making biosafety regulations that do not make GM crop development prohibitively expensive, fostering intraregional trade in GM crops, and providing more and better information about GM crops to consumers who might currently be skeptical of them. These and other findings in Genetically Modified Crops in Africa indicate ways biotechnology can contribute to economic development in Africa south of the Sahara.
Agricultural Biotechnology Reconsidered
Author | : Noah Zerbe |
Publsiher | : Africa Research and Publications |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105114129328 |
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Achieving Food Security in Southern Africa
Author | : Lawrence James Haddad |
Publsiher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780896293359 |
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Biotechnology in Africa
Author | : Florence Wambugu,Daniel Kamanga |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2014-05-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783319040011 |
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In this book, Florence Wambugu and Daniel Kamanga of Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International bring together expert African authorities to critique various biotechnology initiatives and project future developments in the field in Africa. For the first time, African voices from multidisciplinary fields as diverse as economics, agriculture, biotechnology, law, politics and academia, demand to be allowed to set the continent’s biotech development agenda. This book argues that there is a great future for biotechnology in Africa which sidesteps western interests that do not match those of the local populace. In these diverse chapters, Africa’s political and scientific leaders demand a greater say in how research and development funds are allocated and spent. They argue that Africa’s political leaders must see both clear benefits and have elbow-room to drive the change required. This is the way that African governments can employ workable policies, suitable biosafety legislation and regulation and respond effectively to public-private partnerships. Wambugu and Kamanga show that biotechnology has the potential to improve food security and standard of living as well as mitigate the detrimental effects of climate change on the African continent.
Governing Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa
Author | : Norman Clark,John Mugabe,James Smith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015064888418 |
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GM agricultural technologies for Africa
Author | : Chambers, Judith A.,Zambrano, Patricia,Falck-Zepeda, José Benjamin,Gruère, Guillaume P.,Sengupta, Debdatta,Hokanson, Karen |
Publsiher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2014-09-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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The African Development Bank (AfDB), in commissioning this report to be prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), highlighted the need for a comprehensive, evidenced-based review of agricultural biotechnology in order to better understand its current status, issues, constraints, and opportunities for Africa. Agricultural biotechnology comprises several scientific techniques (genetic engineering, molecular marker-assisted breeding, the use of molecular diagnostics and vaccines, and tissue culture) that are used to improve plants, animals, and microorganisms. However, in preparing this desktop analysis, IFPRI has focused on genetic modification (GM) technologies in particular and on the agricultural context in which they are being applied, because GM technologies are at the center of the controversy about biotechnologys role in Africa. In addition, because we have attempted to focus our review on peer-reviewed evidence and documented examples, the preponderance of data presented in the report is focused on genetically modified (also abbreviated GM) crops in use and under development, although we recognize the potential of the technology for livestock, fisheries, and forestry.
Pathways to Productivity
Author | : Kristin Wedding,Johanna Nesseth Tuttle |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2013-10-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781442227880 |
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This report provides an overview of the debate in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda over genetically modified (GM) crops and their potential role in improving food security among smallholder farmers. Specifically, in each country, it examines regulatory structures, science and research capacity, communication and public opinion, the views of smallholder farmers, and the forecast for adoption of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Additionally, it examines regional regulatory efforts and potential trade impacts. Finally, the report provides a set of policy recommendations targeted toward the U.S. government, focus country governments, the donor community, and nongovernmental organizations.