Agricultural Bioeconomy
eBook - ePub

Agricultural Bioeconomy

Innovation and Foresight in the Post-COVID Era

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Agricultural Bioeconomy

Innovation and Foresight in the Post-COVID Era

About this book

Agricultural Bioeconomy: Innovation and Foresight in the Post-COVID Era presents recent advancements in biotechnology, exploring the optimal utilization of technologies to provide rapid and impactful economic recovery and sustainable resources in a future that will bear the mark of COVID-19. Understanding that there is a necessary balance between risk and reward, this book provides a foundational hypothesis as well as operational direction for addressing the commercialization and regulatory issues in a bio-based economy where agricultural output is at the core. By presenting adaptable practices to successfully establish and progress agri-based global bioeconomies, the book features a new paradigm focused on technological foresight and response to future risks and disasters. Key considerations include assessing and managing the urban bioeconomy, climate change mitigation, biofuels and bioenergy, GMOs, and employment generation. This book provides the solid next step toward future-proofing global economies using a combination of agricultural technologies and economic goals. Professionals and advanced students focused on the production of renewable biological resources and their conversion into value-added products including food, feed, bio-based products, and bioenergy will find this book useful. - Addresses recent issues emerging in agro-based economies - Empowers utilization of biotechnology to address worldwide ecological issues - Presents adaptable, risk-management approaches to the adoption of socially and financially valuable agri-based technologies

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Yes, you can access Agricultural Bioeconomy by Chetan Keswani,Cristina Possas,Emmanuel Koukios,Davide Viaggi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technik & Maschinenbau & Agribusiness. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contributors
  7. Author note
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. List of Illustrations
  11. List of Tables
  12. Chapter 1 : Sustainable agro-bioeconomy after Covid-19: Nineteen utopian and dystopian scenarios for the world and Turkey
  13. Chapter 2 : Organic systems under major changes—A deep crisis in the management of the organic world of our planet—New tasks for foresight: An opinion paper
  14. Chapter 3 : Universal access to vaccines in post-COVID bioeconomy: Redesign for variants of concern and patent protection
  15. Chapter 4 : Peptide production by molecular farming with antiviral effects
  16. Chapter 5 : An assessment of smallholder farmers’ status in Umzinyathi and Harry Gwala districts of Kwazulu Natal Province, South Africa
  17. Chapter 6 : Using geospatial technologies to manage COVID-19
  18. Chapter 7 : Potential constraint of rainfall availability on the establishment and expansion of agroforestry in the Joe Gqabi, Alfred Nzo and OR Tambo Districts, Eastern Cape in South Africa
  19. Chapter 8 : Agricultural biotechnology in Bangladesh: The way forward
  20. Chapter 9 : Strategic tropical natural resources management and household socio-economic resilience due to the Covid-19 pandemic
  21. Chapter 10 : The healing and bioeconomic prospect of tropical ecosystems due to the Covid-19 pandemic
  22. Chapter 11 : Towards the fifth innovation era in agricultural innovation
  23. Chapter 12 : The role of collaboration and entrepreneurship in strengthening the participation of primary producers in the bioeconomy
  24. Chapter 13 : Biofuel co-products for livestock feed
  25. Chapter 14 : Education and training in agriculture and the Bioeconomy: Learning from each other
  26. Chapter 15 : Urban agriculture and agro-environment: A case study of homestead food gardeners in the City of Tshwane, Gauteng Province, South Africa
  27. Index
  28. A