Textbook of Environmental Biotechnology – Sustainable Solutions

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. 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. Offering 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. The central questions addressed here are: Ways and circumstances in which certain forms of bio-innovations affect the poor and enable poverty alleviation. Critical factors and conditions for improving the positive impact of bio-innovations on poverty alleviation. Poverty alleviation goals should be the point of departure in rationalizing, identifying and designing appropriate and relevant bio-innovation programs. Table of Contents:Introduction Edsel E Sajor, Bernadette Resurrecci³n and Sudip K RakshitI: Actual, Direct And Prospective Benefits For The PoorBiosand Water Filter and Poor Households in the Philippines Marlon B Sepe, Joel N Sagadal, Rudy D Lange and Jobert C PorrasBio-innovation in Edible Mushroom Industry and Poverty Alleviation in China Wei Geng and Yaoqi ZhangCommercialization of Aquaculture in Nepal: Understanding Its Gender Implications Geeta Bhatrai Bastakoti, Sunila Rai and Gam Bahadur GurungImproved Vegetable Production in Northern Thailand: Is the Innovation Pro-poor and Gender Sensitive? Juthathip Chalermphol, Wallratat Intaruccomporn and Geeta Bhatrai BastakotiLazy Garden Innovation as a Resilience-building Strategy Louis Lebel, Songphonsak Rattanawilailak, Phimphakan Lebel, Alisa Arfue, Patcharawalai Sriyasak and Rajesh DanielII: Absence Of Positive Impacts And Institutional ConstraintsShrimp Probiotics, Social Differentiation and Shrimp Farmers in Vietnam Le Thi Van Hue and Chi Hoang Lan DinhBiochar Stoves: An Innovation Studies Perspective Simon Shackley and Sarah CarterVaccine R&D in Thailand: Meeting Public Health Needs through Collective IPR Management Cecilia OhBiogas Program and Its Impact on the Poor in Vietnam Tuong Vi Pham, Han Tuyet Mai and Tran Chi TrungHarnessing Poverty Alleviation Potential of Biofertilizer in the Philippines Linda M Pe±alba, Merlyne M Paunlagui and Rowena D T BaconguisIII: Pro-poor Drivers And Embedding In Anti-poverty AlleviationKnowing Earth and Sky: The Transmission of Knowledge in Natural Farming in Chiang Mai Province Jeff RutherfordChanging Trends of Bio-Innovation in Pharmaceutical Industry: Inclusion and Exclusion of Poor Eunjeong MaBt Cotton in China: Implications for the Rural Poor and Poverty Alleviation Qiaoqiao Zhang and Wan MinBiofertilizer-based Bio-innovation: Relevance to Poverty Welfare Sunita SangarIndex