Agriculture for Food Security and Rural Growth

Foreword. Preface. Developing a road map for future agriculture research/M.S. Swaminathan. 1. Green revolution to gene revolution: biotechnology applications in crop improvement/C.R. Bhatia. 2. Classical and modern gene technologies for an evolving agriculture/H.K. Jain. 3. Prospects of gene revolution in India for sustainable agricultural development/S.M. Paul Khurana and S.K. Chakrabarti. 4. Agriculture and food security in the context of globalization/C.R. Hazra. 5. Bio-diesel from jatropha: from vision to reality/Alok Adholeya and Deepak Pant. 6. Technologies for sustainable crop protection/Nutan Kaushik and Vivek Sharma. 7. The imperative of crop protection for farmers/Salil Singhal. 8. Economic empowerment of rural India: the case of national agricultural innovation project/Mruthyunjaya. 9. Technology acquisition: a right model to develop products faster/Arvind Kapur. 10. Technology acquisition: the Philippines experience/Benigno D Peczon. 11. Application of modern biotechnology for improving livelihoods in the semi-arid tropics: ICRISAT’s initiatives/William D. Dar, P. Bhatnagar-Mathur and Kiran K. Sharma. 12. Public-private partnerships in agricultural biotechnology/Sanjay Saxena. 13. Insect resistant cabbage and cauliflower: the CIMBAA Public-private partnership/Derek Russell. 14. Biopharming of therapeutic recombinant antibodies: the safest drugs of future/G.P. Talwar, Hemant Kumar Vyas, Rafi Shiraz Kabeer and Rajan Sriraman. 15. Plant biosecurity in India/R.K. Khetarpal and Kavita Gupta. 16. Genetic transformation of plants by gene targeting/P. Ananda Kumar. 17. GM crops in India/Veena Chhotray. 18. Safety assessment of GM food crops/Vibha Ahuja. 19. Agribiotechnology in India: biosafety issues, experiences, and expectations/K.K. Tripathi and Upendra N. Behera. 20. Biotechnology and biosafety initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa/Idah Sithole-Niang. 21. Four years of a commercial transgenic crop in India: future prospects of biotech agriculture/C.D. Mayee and K.R. Kranthi. 22. Managing the IP landscape in agricultural biotechnology/Zakir Thomas.