Bio-innovation and poverty alleviation:

Bio-innovation and poverty alleviation: case studies from Asia / edited by Edsel E. Sajor - New Delhi: Sage Publication, 2014. - xli, 352 p.

1.Cover; Contents; Introduction --
2.Actual, Direct,and Prospective Benefits for the Poor--
3.Biosand Water Filter and Poor Households in the Philippines; --
4.Bio-innovation in Edible Mushroom Industry and Poverty Alleviation in China --
5.Commercialization of Aqua culture in Nepal: Understanding Its Gender Implications--
6.Improved Vegetable Production in Northern Thailand: Is the Innovation Pro-poor and Gender Sensitive? --
'7.Lazy Garden' Innovation as a Resilience-building Strategy --
8.Absence of Positive Impacts and Institutional Constraints --
9.Shrimp Probiotics, Social Differentiation, and Shrimp Farmers in Vietnam--
10.Biochar Stoves: An Innovation Studies Perspective --
11.Vaccine R&D in Thailand: Meeting Public Health Needs through Collective IPR Management--
12.Biogas Program and Its Impact on the Poor in Vietnam--
13.Harnessing Poverty Alleviation Potential of Biofertilizer in the Philippines --
14.Pro-poor Drivers and Embeddingin Anti-poverty Alleviation; --
15.Knowing Earth and Sky:The Transmission of Knowledge in Natural Farming in Chiang Mai Province --
16.Changing Trends of Bio-innovation in Pharmaceutical Industry: Inclusion and Exclusion of Poor--
17.Bt Cotton in China: Implications for the Rural Poor and Poverty Alleviation--
18.Biofertilizer-based Bio-innovation: Relevance to Poverty Welfare; About the Editors and Contributors; Index

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.

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