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Title Bio-innovation and poverty alleviation : case studies from Asia / edited by Edsel E. Sajor, Bernadette P. Resurrección, Sudip K. Rakshit
Published New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2014

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Contents Introduction / Edsel E Sajor, Bernadette Resurrección and Sudip K Raks -- I: ACTUAL, DIRECT AND PROSPECTIVE BENEFITS FOR THE POOR: Biosand Water Filter and Poor Households in the Philippines / Marlon B Sepe, Joel N Sagadal, Rudy D Lange, and Jobert C Porras -- Bio-innovation in Edible Mushroom Industry and Poverty Alleviation in China / Wei Geng and Yaoqi Zhang -- Commercialization of Aquaculture in Nepal: Understanding Its Gender Implications / Geeta Bhatrai Bastakoti, Sunila Rai, and Gam Bahadur Gurung -- Improved Vegetable Production in Northern Thailand: Is the Innovation Pro-poor and Gender Sensitive / Juthathip Chalermphol, Wallratat Intaruccomporn, and Geeta Bhatrai Bastakoti -- 'Lazy Garden' Innovation as a Resilience-building Strategy / Louis Lebel, Songphonsak Rattanawilailak, Phimphakan Lebel, Alisa Arfue, Patcharawalai Sriyasak, and Rajesh Daniel -- II: ABSENCE OF POSITIVE IMPACTS AND INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS : Shrimp Probiotics, Social Differentiation, and Shrimp Farmers in Vietnam/ Le Thi Van Hue and Chi Hoang Lan Dinh -- Biochar Stoves: An Innovation Studies Perspective / Simon Shackley and Sarah Carter -- Vaccine R & D in Thailand: Meeting Public Health Needs through Collective IPR Management / Cecilia Oh -- Biogas Program and Its Impact on the Poor in Vietnam / Tuong Vi Pham, Han Tuyet Mai, and Tran Chi Trung -- Harnessing Poverty Alleviation Potential of Biofertilizer in the Philippines / Linda M Peñalba, Merlyne M Paunlagui, and Rowena D T Baconguis -- III: PRO-POOR DRIVERS AND EMBEDDING IN ANTI-POVERTY ALLEVIATION: Knowing Earth and Sky: The Transmission of Knowledge in Natural Farming in Chiang Mai Province / Jeff Rutherford -- Changing Trends of Bio-Innovation in Pharmaceutical Industry: Inclusion and Exclusion of Poor / Eunjeong Ma -- Bt Cotton in China: Implications for the Rural Poor and Poverty Alleviation / Qiaoqiao Zhang and Wan Min -- Biofertilizer-based Bio-innovation: Relevance to Poverty Welfare / Sunita Sangar
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. 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, and 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. -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Poverty -- Asia
Biotechnology -- Economic aspects -- Asia
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Asia
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
Biotechnology -- Economic aspects
Poverty
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Sajor, Edsel E., editor.
Resurreccion, Bernadette P., editor
Rakshit, Sudip K., editor.
ISBN 9789351501503
9351501507