{"product_id":"9788132119722","title":"Bio-innovation and Poverty Alleviation : Case Studies from Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. Conditions and circumstances in countries like Cambodia, China, India, Korea, Nepal, Philippines, and Thailand are quite different and provide a mosaic of varied experiences in bio-innovation that include shrimp farming, GMO cotton, bio gas, organic farming, and vaccines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering important insights into various forms of bio-innovation efforts and their effects on poverty alleviation, this volume is divided into three major themes that organize the main sections of the book—benefits for the poor: actual, direct, and prospective benefits for the poor; absence of positive impacts and institutional constraints; pro-poor drivers and embedding in anti-poverty alleviation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe central questions addressed here are:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Ways and circumstances in which certain forms of bio-innovations affect the poor and enable poverty alleviation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Critical factors and conditions for improving the positive impact of bio-innovations on poverty alleviation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Poverty alleviation goals should be the point of departure in rationalizing, identifying and designing appropriate and relevant bio-innovation programs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044649058544,"sku":"9788132119722","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9788132119722_p0.jpg?v=1763724163","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9788132119722","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}