Move Towards Zero Hunger - Softcover

Behera, Basanta Kumara; Rout, Pramod Kumar; Behera, Shyambhavee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9813298022 ISBN 13: 9789813298026

Publisher: Springer, 2020

Synopsis

Some geographic regions around the globe that are rich in terms of modern agriculture technologies, face a dilemma when it comes to storing excess produce, such as grains and even seasonal fruits and vegetable. They are often forced to destroy the surplus agricultural products due to the constraints of poor logistic systems, food warehouses and micro-economy system management.

In contrast, millions of people in extreme rural areas are suffering from hunger and poverty. This book offers suggestions to resolve the problems of food security and poverty in rural areas and ensure minimum social justice so that those in rural areas have regular access to food and shelter. It also discusses how to develop sustainable foundations in extreme rural locations using indigenous resources to tackle issues like hunger, malnutrition, and chronic health problems.

      

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About the Author

Dr. Basanta Kumara Behera was a Professor of Biotechnology at three distinguished Indian universities, and has been involved in postgraduate teaching and research on the topics related to bio-energy management and biomass processing technology since 1978. In 2009 he joined a MNS company as adviser for speciality chemical production and drug design using microbial process technologies. Prof. Behera is associated with leading national and international companies as a technical adviser on the production of biopharmaceuticals under cGMP norms. He has authored various books published by CRC Press USA and Springer Verlag, Germany, and is also an accomplished writer, writing in many forms like free verse, haiku, Senryu, Sonnet, Tanka, and quatrain. He publishes English poems in both national and international magazines.

Dr. Pramod Kumar Rout is working as a Principal Scientist at ICAR-CIRG. He completed his doctoral degree at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi and at the Genetics and Genomics Division, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, UK. He has also worked as a Visiting Scientist at the University of Arizona, USA and he coordinates an All India research project on goat improvement in different agro climatic zones in India. His research interests include the genetic diversity of livestock, conservation of animal genetic resources and management, genetics of disease resistance, genetics of heat stress regulation in livestock and milk genomics. He has also worked in the area of conservation of endangered goats in their natural habitat and on various developmental projects with farmers in remote corners of India.

Dr. Shyambhavee Behera is a medical graduate from Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, and holds an MD degree from University College of Medical Science, New Delhi. She works in the field of non-communicable disease, immunization, maternal and child health, epidemiology and health administration to promote sustainable life styles and improve health.  She is currently associated with the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, an autonomous institute of the Dept. of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. She was the co-author of book series “New Paradigms of Living Systems” SpringerNature, Singapore Pte. Ltd.

    

From the Back Cover

Some geographic regions around the globe that are rich in terms of modern agriculture technologies, face a dilemma when it comes to storing excess produce, such as grains and even seasonal fruits and vegetable. They are often forced to destroy the surplus agricultural products due to the constraints of poor logistic systems, food warehouses and micro-economy system management.

In contrast, millions of people in extreme rural areas are suffering from hunger and poverty. This book offers suggestions to resolve the problems of food security and poverty in rural areas and ensure minimum social justice so that those in rural areas have regular access to food and shelter. It also discusses how to develop sustainable foundations in extreme rural locations using indigenous resources to tackle issues like hunger, malnutrition, and chronic health problems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9813298022
• ISBN 13: 9789813298026
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224