The Gene Revolution and Global Food Security: Biotechnology Innovation in Latecomers by Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, B.

The Gene Revolution and Global Food Security: Biotechnology Innovation in Latecomers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230228825)

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The Gene Revolution and Global Food Security: Biotechnology Innovation in Latecomers by Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, B.

The Gene Revolution and Global Food Security: Biotechnology Innovation in Latecomers

$54.99
The Gene Revolution and Global Food Security: Biotechnology Innovation in Latecomers by Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, B.

The Gene Revolution and Global Food Security: Biotechnology Innovation in Latecomers

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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Using the concept of innovation capacity, this book, using recent field data from countries in Asia and Africa, competently demonstrates how biotechnology can contribute to sustainable economic development. The approach articulates the imperative for developing countries to build up specific capabilities backed up by policies and institutions.

Author: B. Oyelaran-Oyeyinka,P. Gehl Sampath
ISBN-10: 0230228828
ISBN-13: 9780230228825
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2009
Pages: 237
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.80d
By B. Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
By B. Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
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Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka has contributed extensively to the field of innovation and development over the past two decades. Having obtained a PhD from the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK, he has worked for the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Ibadan, the African Technology Policy Studies Network, UNCTAD and UNU-INTECH (now MERIT). He is currently Director of the Monitoring and Research Division at UN-HABITAT in Nairobi.

Padmashree Gehl Sampath is an expert on innovation and development issues having worked for several years as a Researcher at the United Nations University-MERIT and then as a Lecturer on International Development and Innovation at the Open University, UK. She is currently a United Nations staff memberat UNCTAD, Geneva and has contributed extensively to international and regional debates on these issues through her research and from the various projects that she has led in the field.

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