Editors:
- The most comprehensive biotechnology analysis for Sub-Saharan Africa across all agricultural sectors
- Covers current application levels, policy environments, and future capacity perspectives
- Provides individual country level status as well as cross-country comparisons
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Development partners, policy makers, agricultural consultants as well as scientists and private sector investors with an interest in biotechnology initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa will find this collection an important account to identify key gaps in capacity and policy, as well as priority areas going forward. The volume highlights ways to develop technology and increase agricultural production capacity through international cooperation and inclusive economic growth, making it a valuable practice guide in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG 2 Zero Hunger and SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth. Clear case studies round off the reading experience.
Keywords
- Biotechnology
- Sub-saharan Africa
- Investment
- Sustainable Development Goal
- agricultural productive capacity
- technological upgrading
- human capacity
- SDG 8
- SDG 2
- Decent work and economic growth
- Zero Hunger
- Biotechnology infrastructure
- Agribusiness
- Livestock
- Food security
- Biosafety
- Fisheries
- Aquaculture
- Crops
- Country level
Editors and Affiliations
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Emerge Centre for Innovations – Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
John Edward Otieno Rege
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Keith Sones Associates, Banbury, UK
Keith Sones
About the editors
Keith Sones is a freelance writer and editor, specialising in African agriculture and livestock disease, and works for both public and private sector organisations. Currently based in rural Oxfordshire, UK he lived in Nairobi, Kenya for 30 years, initially working for a major veterinary pharmaceutical company before becoming a freelancewriter and editor, and workshop and conference organiser, facilitator and rapporteur mainly in the livestock sector. Keith holds a PhD in parasitology from Glasgow Veterinary School, Scotland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agricultural Biotechnology in Sub-Saharan Africa
Book Subtitle: Capacity, Enabling Environment and Applications in Crops, Livestock, Forestry and Aquaculture
Editors: John Edward Otieno Rege, Keith Sones
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04349-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04348-2Published: 23 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04351-2Published: 24 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04349-9Published: 22 June 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 197
Number of Illustrations: 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Biotechnology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Zoology