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.