Academic Press Agricultural Bioeconomy: Innovation and Foresight in the Post-COVID Era

Agricultural Bioeconomy: Innovation and Foresight in the Post-COVID Era presents recent advancements in biotechnology, laying out a foundation for 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. By providing adaptable practices to successfully establish and progress agri-based global bioeconomies, the book presents a new paradigm for kick starting economic engines with a focus 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 job generation. The book provides the solid next step toward future proofing global economies using a combination of agricultural technologies and economic goals. Review Focuses on agri-based technological foresights and our response to future risks and disasters using lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic From the Back Cover <i>Agricultural Bioeconomy: Innovation and Foresight in Post-Covid Era</i> concentrates on recent advancements in biotechnology, preparing the foundation for 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 functional direction for addressing commercialization and regulatory issues in a bio-based economy where agricultural output is core.<br><br>Presenting adaptable practices to successfully establishing and progressing agri-based global bioeconomies, the book presents a new paradigm for kick starting the economic engines with a focus on technological foresight and response to future risks and disasters. Key considerations that are included are assessing and managing the urban bioeconomy, climate change mitigation, biofuels and bioenergy, GMOs and job generation.<br><br>Agricultural Bioeconomy provides the solid next step toward future proofing global economies using a combination of agricultural technologies and economic goals. About the Author Dr. Chetan Keswani Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has keen interest in regulatory, commercialization and intellectually property aspects of agriculturally important microorganisms in Asia. He is an elected Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London, UK and received Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Uttar Pradesh Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India in 2015. He is an editorial board member of several reputed agricultural microbiology journals and has edited nine books on the subject. For his editorial endeavours he was awarded the Publons Top Peer Review Award in Agricultural Sciences (2018), Outstanding Editor Award (2019) by Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection, Taylor and Francis, and Springer-Society Award (2020) for Excellent contribution to the journal Environmental Sustainability, Springer-Nature. He has an i10 index of 26, and citations in excess of 1100. Prof. Cristina Possas Professor at FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has been Chair of Masters´, Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Programs in Public Health and Clinical Research. Currently, Senior Scientific Advisor of Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz. Takemi Fellow, Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Scientist at Harvard University New Diseases Group for 10 years. Former Director of the Research and Technological Development in the Brazilian National AIDS Program, Ministry of Health. Former Secretary of National Biosafety Commission - CTNBio (GMOs), Ministry of Science and Technology. Invited by Nobel Prize Françoise Barré-Sinoussi to collaborate as member of working groups in HIV Cure Initiative of the International AIDS Societ