The handbook is prepared to create an informed public debate on Genetic Engineering in agriculture and this … Introductory Manual is a contribution to this debate – a debate not just on GE in agriculture per se but on democratization of …

) in the African food and agriculture sector in the last 15 years? (2) What are the drivers of FDI in the African food and … agriculture sector? (3) What is the evidence on the impacts of private-sector investments in the African food and agriculture ….737 billion was invested in the African food and agriculture sector by foreign private-sector investors between 2003 and 2017 …

One of the most pressing concerns about the industrialization of agriculture and food is the consolidation and … concentration of markets for agricultural inputs, agricultural commodities food processing and groceries. In essence a small … minority of actors globally exercise great control over food system decisions. This means that because of increased …

This book presents Urbal, an approach that applies impact pathway mapping to understand how food system innovations in … cities, and their territories, change and impact food system sustainability. Around the world, people are finding innovative … ways to make their food systems more sustainable. However, documenting and understanding how these innovations impact the …

minerals. However, the India-Africa relations in food and agriculture are already important but have potentials for expansion …, especially as food systems and food value chains are modernizing and technologies in agriculture and food sectors are spreading …. For complex reasons Africa had no transformation of its agriculture comparable to India's during its erstwhile Green …

Using a novel dataset on foreign direct investment (FDI), this paper analyzes the correlates of planned FDI in the food … investment location by foreign investors, especially those from the Global North. Capital investment in agriculture, as proxied … agriculture, in the form of government expenditure and official development assistance, is also associated with higher FDI. These …

, distortions resulted in atypical food consumption and associated production patterns compared to market economies, with low and … as benchmarks, we identify to what extent various turning points have been reached in food consumption patterns and self … values to measure progress and compare and contrast country changes in food consumption and production with a commensurate …

This paper investigates the effect of innovation on primary agricultural and processed food product exports among the … market power effect in the food processing sector, resulting in a decrease in exports. Also, evidence was found of a positive … vertical channeling effect through which R&D in the primary agricultural sector increases exports of processed food products. …

long-term changes in factor income shares in three agri-food industries, their attribution to the level of factor usage or …, and increase in the profit share of food manufacturing income due to fewer productivity improvements being passed on to …