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Biotechnology: A Hope or a Threat?

✍ Scribed by Iftikhar Ahmed (eds.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Leaves
296
Series
International Labour Office
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Investigates current applications of biotechnology in developing countries and their impact on the rural poor. Can biotechnologies be specifically designed and deliberately released to alleviate rural poverty, or will they accentuate existing inequalities?

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Introduction and Overview....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
A Conceptual Framework for Biotechnology Assessment....Pages 17-42
New Biotechnologies for Rural Development....Pages 43-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Advanced Plant Biotechnology in Mexico: a Hope for the Neglected?....Pages 65-78
Biotechnology and Farm Size in Kenya....Pages 79-93
Biotechnology and Labour Absorption in Malawi Agriculture....Pages 94-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
The Differential Impact of Biotechnology: the Mexico — United States Contrast....Pages 117-126
Biotechnology to Combat Malnutrition in Nigeria....Pages 127-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Biotechnology Trends: A Threat to Philippine Agriculture?....Pages 147-165
Can We Avert an Oil Crisis?....Pages 166-188
Policy Perspectives and the Future Outlook....Pages 189-219
Back Matter....Pages 220-275

✦ Subjects

Biotechnology; Economics, general; Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology

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