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This book analyzes the impacts of current and possible future GM crop applications and shows that these technologies can contribute substantially to sustainable agricultural development and food security
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Despite the accelerating pace of globalization, it is impossible to ignore the marginalization of the developing world …, as billions of people continue to slip deeper into poverty. While many theories, policies, and practices have been …
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Grundlegung -- Terminologische und konzeptionelle Grundlagen -- Vertiefung des Modells nachhaltiger Austauschrelationen -- Multinationale Unternehmen an der BoP: Reflexionen im Lichte von Corporate Citizenship -- Empirische Relevanz der behandelten Konzepte an der BoP -- Konklusion und Ausblick.
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Biotechnologische Produkt- und Prozeßentwicklung im Wettbewerb -- Biotechnologie: Potential, Anwendung und Entwicklung … -- Methodische Grundlagen des Evaluierungskonzepts -- Evaluierungskonzept zur Beurteilung der ökonomischen Nachhaltigkeit …Das Thema Nachhaltigkeit mit seinen drei Säulen Ökologie, Ökonomie und Soziales gewinnt bei der Entwicklung neuer …
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1. Introduction -- 2. Spatial Disparities and Poverty: The Case of Three Provinces in the Philippines -- 3. Decomposing … Poverty Change in India: Within- and Between-Group Effects Across Regions, 2004-05 and 2009-10 -- 4.Pathways Out of Rural … Poverty and the Role of Agriculture in Four Rice-Ecosystems in the Rural Philippines -- 5. Reducing Petroleum Subsidy in …
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Humangenetische Ressourcen sind Gegenstand wichtiger Spitzenforschung im 21. Jahrhundert. Die Auswirkungen populationsgenetischer Projekte und der neuen Erkenntnisse auf die Menschheit werden intensiv diskutiert. María Cristina Blohm untersucht den Zugang zu humangenetischen Ressourcen...
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By 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change. How can we meet … this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial … the World unites contributors from different perspectives and academic disciplines, ranging from agronomy and hydrology to …
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This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of...
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considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment …
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This book examines the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on local economies, and presents selected case studies of MNEs operating in low income countries. By balancing external social and environmental costs against its corresponding benefits, the book demonstrates that MNEs can have a...
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