Deploying the full arsenal: fighting hunger with biotechnology

Article Abstract:

The modern efforts to fight hunger and the projected future problem are reviewed. In this relation the concept of biotechnology is analyzed which if deployed could lead to an agricultural revolution more impressive than the Green Revolution and make a difference in waging a successful war on hunger.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Biological Product (except Diagnostic) Manufacturing, Drugs, Molecular Biological Products, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Food supply, Biotechnology, Agricultural revolution

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Improving African food security

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The Green Revolution that boosted output elsewhere did not have any impact on the food production of Africa with relation to its population growth. The poor natural resource base of agriculture and the unfavorable socioeconomic conditions are largely to blame.

Evaluation, Economic aspects, Agricultural development projects, Agricultural development, Green Revolution

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Ownership is over-rated

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Ownership is less a policy instrument than a policy outcome. It is suggested that policy makers and policy advocates should reflect on why local actors behave irresponsibly and then work with them to design appropriate solutions.

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iraq, Analysis, Political aspects, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Democracy, Bosnia and Herzegovina foreign relations, Political history

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