Creating Sustainable Bioeconomies: The bioscience revolution in Europe and Africa

ISBN-13: 9780367870973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 276 str.

Ivar Virgin; E. Jane Morris

Opis

This book explores the prospects for biosciences and how its innovation has the potential to help countries in the North (Europe) and the South (Africa) to move towards resource efficient agriculture and sustainable bioeconomies. Throughout the book, the situations of Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa will be compared and contrasted, and opportuniti

Spis treści

Section 1. Introduction: Why this book?

Foreword.

Joachim von Braun, Chair of the German Government’s Bioeconomy Council.

Chapter 1. Background and overview of the book,

E Jane Morris, University of Leeds, UK

Ivar Virgin, Stockholm Environment Institute

Chapter 2. Benefits and challenges of a new knowledge based bioeconomy

Ivar Virgin, Matthew Fielding, Melinda Fones Sundell, Holger Hoff and Jakob Granit Stockholm Environment Institute.

Chapter 3. The gene revolution: What can and can’t be done with modern biosciences?

E. Jane Morris, University of Leeds, UK.

Section 2-Towards sustainable food security

Chapter 4. The European Perspective. The case for a highly productive and innovative agriculture in Europe

Harald von Witzke, Humboldt University of Berlin

Steffen Noleppa, Humboldt Forum for Food and Agriculture

Chapter 5. The African Perspective. New biosciences making African agriculture more productive and resilient

Jennifer A. Thomson, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Chapter 6. Europe and Africa: Addressing the food security challenges

Philipp Aerni, Isabelle Schluep Campo, University of Zurich

Ruth K. Oniang’o, African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development

Section 3- Towards resource efficient economies Broadening the base of agriculture.

Chapter 7. The European Perspective. Potential of crop biosciences to support resource-use efficiency, climate change mitigation and adaptation in European agriculture

Olle Olsson¹, Torbjörn Fagerström², Jens Sundström², Thomas Kätterer² and Ivar Virgin¹. ¹Stockholm Environment Institute. ²Swedish University of Agri

O autorze

Ivar Virgin is a researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden. For the past 20 years at SEI he has done extensive research, managed numerous projects and published extensively in the field of bioscience innovation. A focus of his work has been capacity building and institutional building in third world countries, particularly Africa.

E. Jane Morris is an independent Life Sciences consultant who has spent most of her working life in Africa. She is now based in the UK and has a Visiting Fellowship in the School of Biology at Leeds University. She has expertise that includes bioscience and biotechnology, GMO biosafety and regulatory issues and strategy planning.