Agricultural Bioeconomy
Innovation and Foresight in the Post-COVID Era
- 1st Edition - November 29, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Chetan Keswani, Cristina Possas, Emmanuel Koukios, Davide Viaggi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 5 6 9 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 6 9 5 - 1
Agricultural Bioeconomy: Innovation and Foresight in the Post-COVID Era presents recent advancements in biotechnology, exploring the optimal utilization of technologies to provid… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAgricultural 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
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
- Cover
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Author note
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Sustainable agro-bioeconomy after Covid-19: Nineteen utopian and dystopian scenarios for the world and Turkey
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Covid-19 and sustainable agro-bioeconomy
- 3: Scenarios for agro-bioeconomy after Covid-19
- 4: Conclusion
- References
- 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
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction and approach
- 2: Results and discussion
- 3: Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter 3: Universal access to vaccines in post-COVID bioeconomy: Redesign for variants of concern and patent protection
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Universal access to vaccines and pandemic preparedness: Conceptual framework
- 3: COVID-19 vaccines: Global distribution and related variants
- 4: SARS-CoV-2 variants and genomic vaccines: Overview
- 5: BRICS’ vaccines: Development and production capacity
- 6: DNA and RNA vaccines in clinical trials: Patent landscape
- 7: Discussion
- 8: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4: Peptide production by molecular farming with antiviral effects
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Molecular farming for production drugs and vaccines
- 3: Antimicrobial peptide and antiviral effects
- 4: Peptide heterologous expression host systems
- 5: Peptide production in plants
- 6: Purification of recombinant antimicrobial peptides
- 7: Challenges of using peptides in treatment
- 8: Peptide-based drugs
- 9: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 5: An assessment of smallholder farmers’ status in Umzinyathi and Harry Gwala districts of Kwazulu Natal Province, South Africa
- Abstract
- Funding (information that explains whether and by whom the research was supported)
- Conflicts of interest/competing interests (include appropriate disclosures)
- Availability of data and material (data transparency)
- Code availability (software application or custom code)
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- 1: Introduction
- 2: Methodology
- 3: Results and discussion
- 4: Conclusion and recommendations
- References
- Chapter 6: Using geospatial technologies to manage COVID-19
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Principal sensors, characteristics and applications
- 3: COVID-19: Impact assessments with insights from satellite data
- 4: Remote sensing as a tool to survey endemic diseases
- 5: Conclusion
- References
- 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
- Abstract
- Funding (information that explains whether and by whom the research was supported)
- Conflicts of interest/competing interests (include appropriate disclosures)
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- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Methodology
- 3: Results and discussions
- 4: Conclusion and recommendations
- References
- Chapter 8: Agricultural biotechnology in Bangladesh: The way forward
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Agriculture in Bangladesh
- 3: Adopting agricultural biotechnology for circular bioeconomy
- 4: Recent breakthroughs in the cultivation of GM crops in Bangladesh
- 5: Genome editing as an emerging technology for the agricultural improvement in Bangladesh
- 6: The regulatory framework for GMOs adoption in Bangladesh
- 7: Consumer acceptance and future regulation of new breeding technologies in Bangladesh
- 8: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 9: Strategic tropical natural resources management and household socio-economic resilience due to the Covid-19 pandemic
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The effects of Covid 19 pandemic: From global to households
- 3: Covid-19: Disruption on socio-economic and nature
- 4: Innovation: A new paradigm of knowledge-based development in Covid-19 era
- 5: Integrated bio-cycles farming system in post Covid-19 era: The next level
- 6: Household social economic resilience in Covid-19 era
- 7: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 10: The healing and bioeconomic prospect of tropical ecosystems due to the Covid-19 pandemic
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Covid-19 and La-Nina phenomenon in Indonesia
- 3: The healing of tropical ecosystem in Indonesia
- 4: Bio-economy of nature-based resources management
- 5: Agricultural supply chain management
- 6: Precision and smart agriculture
- 7: Conclusions
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 11: Towards the fifth innovation era in agricultural innovation
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Challenges of world agriculture
- 3: Challenges as drivers of innovation
- 4: Historic reflections: The first four innovation eras
- 5: The new fifth innovation era starting now
- 6: Enablers and disablers in the fifth innovation era
- 7: Conclusion
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 12: The role of collaboration and entrepreneurship in strengthening the participation of primary producers in the bioeconomy
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction and overview
- 2: Methodology
- 3: Results
- 4: Discussion and conclusions
- References
- Chapter 13: Biofuel co-products for livestock feed
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Structure of the chapter
- 3: Biofuel for a sustainable market
- 4: Biofuel co-products for livestock feed
- 5: Conclusions and future market trends
- References
- Chapter 14: Education and training in agriculture and the Bioeconomy: Learning from each other
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Bioeconomy education needs and approaches
- 3: Agricultural education and the epistemology of inter- and trans-disciplinarity
- 4: Transforming the AKIS framework toward collaborative learning and innovation: Can we extend it further to cover Bioeconomy
- 5: Discussion: Lessons learnt and the way forward
- 6: Concluding remarks
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 15: Urban agriculture and agro-environment: A case study of homestead food gardeners in the City of Tshwane, Gauteng Province, South Africa
- Abstract
- Funding (information that explains whether and by whom the research was supported)
- Conflicts of interest/competing interests (include appropriate disclosures)
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- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Methodology
- 3: Results and discussion
- 4: Conclusions and recommendations
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 29, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 368
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323905695
- eBook ISBN: 9780323906951
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Chetan Keswani
Dr. Chetan Keswani
Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has keen interest in regulatory, commercialization and intellectually property aspects of agriculturally important microorganisms in Asia. He is an elected Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London, UK and received Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Uttar Pradesh Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India in 2015. He is an editorial board member of several reputed agricultural microbiology journals and has edited nine books on the subject. For his editorial endeavours he was awarded the Publons Top Peer Review Award in Agricultural Sciences (2018), Outstanding Editor Award (2019) by Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection, Taylor and Francis, and Springer-Society Award (2020) for Excellent contribution to the journal Environmental Sustainability, Springer-Nature. He has an i10 index of 26, and citations in excess of 1100.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaCP
Cristina Possas
Prof. Cristina Possas
Professor at FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has been Chair of Masters´, Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Programs in Public Health and Clinical Research. Currently, Senior Scientific Advisor of Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz. Takemi Fellow, Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Scientist at Harvard University New Diseases Group for 10 years. Former Director of the Research and Technological Development in the Brazilian National AIDS Program, Ministry of Health. Former Secretary of National Biosafety Commission - CTNBio (GMOs), Ministry of Science and Technology. Invited by Nobel Prize Françoise Barré-Sinoussi to collaborate as member of working groups in HIV Cure Initiative of the International AIDS Society-IAS, with several international publications with members of the Initiative. Former Director of the Brazil research site of the National French Agency for AIDS and Viral Hepatitis Research (ANRS), awarded with a medal. Publications in Nature Biotechnology, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, World Bank, AIDS, JAIDS.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Senior Scientific Advisor, Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilEK
Emmanuel Koukios
Prof. Emmanuel G. Koukios
Professor Emeritus, Chemical Engineering School, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Head of the NTUA Research Group BIOTOPOS, specialized in the engineering of biological resources and systems, the utilization of biomass in the production of bioenergy and other bio-products and bio-services, and the management and strategy of socio-technical change. His current activities focus on issues of sustainability, the use of technology foresight tools, and the emergence of bioeconomy and bio-society, with emphasis on bio-greening. His published work consists of more than 500 journal, conference and other outputs, with more than 4000 citations. His distinctions include getting an Honorary Doctorate on Bioresource Technologies from Pannonian U. (Hungary); managing the European Commission’s research activity on “Innovation in Agro-Biotechnology” (Brussels); coordinating a National Technology Foresight Program (Greece); obtaining Fulbright Award on Renewable Energies by the U. of California (Berkeley, USA); and chairing the Bioeconomy Advisory Board of the EC.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Chemical Engineering School, National Technical University, Athens, GreeceDV
Davide Viaggi
Prof. Davide Viaggi
Full Professor in Agricultural Economics and Rural Appraisal at the University of Bologna, Italy. The main research interests include economics of the bioeconomy, provision of public goods by agriculture and forestry, economics of innovation and entrepreneurship, agricultural policy, economics of water use, environmental evaluation, farm management. He was involved in several EU-funded projects and coordinator of the projects CAP-IRE (FP7), CLAIM (FP7), PROVIDE (H2020) and CONSOLE (H2020). Author of more than 500 publications, of which 115 papers listed in Scopus, with 1263 citations and h-index 20. Author of the book “The Bioeconomy: Delivering Sustainable Green Growth, CABI (2018) and former Editor-in-chief of the journal “Bio-based and Applied Economics”. Expert for the EU Commission of the evaluation of the first Bioeconomy strategy and involved in projects on bio-based products, Bioeconomy clusters, bio-based business models, Bioeconomy transition. UNIBO representative for the European Bioeconomy University.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor in Agriculturral Economics and Rural Appraisal, University of Bologna, Bologna, ItalyRead Agricultural Bioeconomy on ScienceDirect