Product Description: In Search of Biohappiness deals with methods of converting agro-biodiversity hotspots into happy spots. This involves concurrent attention to conservation, and sustainable and equitable use. Bioresources constitute the feedstock for the biotechnology industry...read more

Product Description: Despite efforts by the central and state governments, India remains home to the largest number of malnourished children and adults in the world. Authored by M. S. Swaminathan, a world scientist of rare distinction, this book holistically considers the problem of food production in India...read more

Product Description: Presenting a road map for rescuing the fate of farming from the current agrarian crisis, this collection analyzes public policy issues related to agriculture and policy formation. Assembled by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, these 39 policy papers were issued within the last 15 years and address a wide range of topics—including sustainable livelihood and nutrition security, water resources management, soil health enhancement and fertilizer use, agro-biodiversity and biosafety, agricultural research and education, and globalization and agri-exports...read more

Product Description: The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015�income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter�while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability...read more

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Product Description: This volume assembles the presentations made at the second Asia Pacific conference on plant-based agriculture, held in 1994. The book is organized into seven main areas including: biodiversity; tissue culture and micropropagation; molecular breeding; genetic engineering; and gene expression...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The role of plants in shaping the modern world is explored from many angles by more than 20 international scientists. The contributors cover topics ranging from "Genetic Conservation" to "Plant Resources for 2001 AD".