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  title info:
    title: Biotechnology in Africa
    sub title: Emergence, Initiatives and Future
  name:
    name part: Wambugu, Florence.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Kamanga, Daniel.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 291 p. 49 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction: The Importance of Political Will in furthering Agricultural Biotechnology for Economic Growth, Food and Nutritional Security in Africa -- Commercialized Genetically Modified Crops: Biotech (Bt) Cotton in Burkina Faso Demonstrates that Political Will is Key for Biotechnology to Benefit Commercial Agriculture in Africa -- Opportunities and Challenges of Commercializing Biotech Products in Egypt: Biotech (Bt) Maize: A Case Study -- Genetically Modified Crops Commercialized in South Africa -- Building the Bio-economy and Commercialization Challenges: Moving Africa Towards a Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy -- Biotechnology Success Stories by the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) System -- Towards Optimizing the Impact of Tissue Culture Banana in Kenya -- Technologies in Development: The Use of African Indigenous Genes in the Development of Transgenic Maize Tolerant to Drought and Resistant to Maize Streak Virus.-Biotechnology of Nutritionally Enhanced Food Crops Targeting Malnutrition in Rural Agricultural Populations: The Case Study of Africa Biofortified Sorghum.-Capacity Development: The Role of African Universities on Training and Mentorship of Biotechnology Scientists to Embark on Future Challenges in Africa -- Elements of an Enabling Biosafety and Regulatory Environment -- Harmonization of regional bio safety and regulatory services to remove future trade barriers in the (Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa) COMESA region -- Communication and Community Engagement: Social Audits and their role in stakeholder-oriented innovation and fostering accountability and trust in agricultural biotechnology development programs -- Why communication and issues management must occupy a central role in GM projects: Case study of the Africa Biofortified Sorghum (ABS) Project -- Political Challenges: Does Africa need Political will to overcome impediments to GM crop biotechnology applications for agricultural economic growth and dev…
  note: edited by Florence Wambugu, Daniel Kamanga.
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Pharmacy
  subject:
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Plant science
  subject:
    topic: Botany
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: R & D/Technology Policy
  subject:
    topic: Plant Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  subject:
    topic: Pharmacy
  classification: TP248.13-248.65
  classification: 660.6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Science Policy Reports, 7
  identifier: 9783319040011
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04001-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 140510
    record change date: 20151125151049.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-04001-1