Agricultural Bioeconomy by Keswani, Chetan; Possas, Cristina; Koukios, Emmanuel; Viaggi, Davide;

Long description:

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.

Table of Contents:

1. Sustainable Agro-Bioeconomy After Covid-19: Nineteen Utopian and Dystopian Scenarios for the World and Turkey
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
3. Universal access to vaccines
4. Peptide production by molecular farming with antiviral effects
5. An assessment of smallholder farmers status in the Umzinyathi and Harry Gwala districts in Kwazulu Province, South Africa
6. Using Geospatial Technologies to manage through COVID-19
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
8. The Establishment of Agricultural Biotechnology in Bangladesh
9. Strategic Tropical Natural Resources Management and Household Socio-Economic Resilience due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
10. The Healing and Bioeconomic Prospect of Tropical Ecosystems due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
11. Towards the fifth agricultural innovation era
12. The role of collaboration and entrepreneurship in strengthening the participation of primary producers in the bioeconomy
13. Biofuel Co-products for Livestock Feed
14. Education and training in agriculture and the Bioeconomy: learning from each other
15. Urban Agriculture and Agro - Environment: A Case Study of Homestead Food Gardeners in the City of Tshwane, Gauteng Province, South Africa