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.
1. Agricultural Bioeconomy - p. Page i 2. Cover - p. Page i 3. Front Matter - p. Page i 4. Table of Contents - p. Page iv 5. Copyright - p. Page v 6. Dedication - p. Page vi 7. Contributors - p. Page vi 8. Author note - p. Page x 9. Preface - p. Page x 10. Acknowledgments - p. Page xii 11. List of Illustrations - p. Page xiii 12. List of Tables - p. Page xiv 13. Chapter 1 : Sustainable agro-bioeconomy after Covid-19: Nineteen utopian and dystopian scenarios for the world and Turkey - p. Page xiv 14. 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 - p. Page 25 15. Chapter 3 : Universal access to vaccines in post-COVID bioeconomy: Redesign for variants of concern and patent protection - p. Page 25 16. Chapter 4 : Peptide production by molecular farming with antiviral effects - p. Page 68 17. Chapter 5 : An assessment of smallholder farmers’ status in Umzinyathi and Harry Gwala districts of Kwazulu Natal Province, South Africa - p. Page 82 18. Chapter 6 : Using geospatial technologies to manage COVID-19 - p. Page 101 19. 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 - p. Page 114 20. Chapter 8 : Agricultural biotechnology in Bangladesh: The way forward - p. Page 140 21. Chapter 9 : Strategic tropical natural resources management and household socio-economic resilience due to the Covid-19 pandemic - p. Page 162 22. Chapter 10 : The healing and bioeconomic prospect of tropical ecosystems due to the Covid-19 pandemic - p. Page 179 23. Chapter 11 : Towards the fifth innovation era in agricultural innovation - p. Page 198 24. Chapter 12 : The role of collaboration and entrepreneurship in strengthening the participation of primary producers in the bioeconomy - p. Page 227 25. Chapter 13 : Biofuel co-products for livestock feed - p. Page 242 26. Chapter 14 : Education and training in agriculture and the Bioeconomy: Learning from each other - p. Page 281 27. Chapter 15 : Urban agriculture and agro-environment: A case study of homestead food gardeners in the City of Tshwane, Gauteng Province, South Africa - p. Page 306 28. Index - p. Page 335
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.
1. Agricultural Bioeconomy - p. Page i 2. Cover - p. Page i 3. Front Matter - p. Page i 4. Table of Contents - p. Page iv 5. Copyright - p. Page v 6. Dedication - p. Page vi 7. Contributors - p. Page vi 8. Author note - p. Page x 9. Preface - p. Page x 10. Acknowledgments - p. Page xii 11. List of Illustrations - p. Page xiii 12. List of Tables - p. Page xiv 13. Chapter 1 : Sustainable agro-bioeconomy after Covid-19: Nineteen utopian and dystopian scenarios for the world and Turkey - p. Page xiv 14. 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 - p. Page 25 15. Chapter 3 : Universal access to vaccines in post-COVID bioeconomy: Redesign for variants of concern and patent protection - p. Page 25 16. Chapter 4 : Peptide production by molecular farming with antiviral effects - p. Page 68 17. Chapter 5 : An assessment of smallholder farmers’ status in Umzinyathi and Harry Gwala districts of Kwazulu Natal Province, South Africa - p. Page 82 18. Chapter 6 : Using geospatial technologies to manage COVID-19 - p. Page 101 19. 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 - p. Page 114 20. Chapter 8 : Agricultural biotechnology in Bangladesh: The way forward - p. Page 140 21. Chapter 9 : Strategic tropical natural resources management and household socio-economic resilience due to the Covid-19 pandemic - p. Page 162 22. Chapter 10 : The healing and bioeconomic prospect of tropical ecosystems due to the Covid-19 pandemic - p. Page 179 23. Chapter 11 : Towards the fifth innovation era in agricultural innovation - p. Page 198 24. Chapter 12 : The role of collaboration and entrepreneurship in strengthening the participation of primary producers in the bioeconomy - p. Page 227 25. Chapter 13 : Biofuel co-products for livestock feed - p. Page 242 26. Chapter 14 : Education and training in agriculture and the Bioeconomy: Learning from each other - p. Page 281 27. Chapter 15 : Urban agriculture and agro-environment: A case study of homestead food gardeners in the City of Tshwane, Gauteng Province, South Africa - p. Page 306 28. Index - p. Page 335
