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Biodiversity : new leads for the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries

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The continuing quest for new drugs and agrochemicals has seen researchers looking to the natural world for potential products. Plants and microorganisms have long been investigated as sources of new lead compounds, but the scope of this book has been widened to include substances derived from marine organisms. Advances in genetic engineering, high throughput screening and structure elucidation have also opened up further avenues for exploration. Competitive pressure from the field of combinatorial chemistry has expedited new approaches to natural product analysis and stimulated debate on the i


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Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility : The Agrochemical-GMO Industry in Hawai'i.
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ISBN: 9781952271700 Year: 2022 Publisher: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press,

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"How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry's power. Hawaiʻi is a primary site for development of herbicide-resistant corn seed and, until recently, was host to more experimental field trials of genetically engineered crops than anywhere else in the world. It is also a node of powerful resistance. While documentaries and popular news stories have profiled the biotech seed industry in Hawaiʻi, Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility is the first book to detail the social and historical conditions by which the chemical-seed oligopoly came to occupy the most geographically isolated islands in the world and made the soils of Hawaiʻi the epicenter of agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology testing. Andrea Brower, an activist-scholar from Hawaiʻi, examines the consequences related to genetically engineered seed development for Hawaiʻi's people and the social movement that has risen in response. With insights beyond the islands, Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility illuminates why visions for a radically better world must be expanded by intersectional and systemically oriented movements. "-- ""Details the social and historical conditions by which Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry's power"--Provided by the publisher"--


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Best practices in the agrochemical industry
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ISBN: 1784023396 128295590X 9786612955907 1437778267 1437778259 9781437778250 9780080964461 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/William Andrew,

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The Handbook of Cleaner Production comprises a series of reference guides to cleaner production methods, technologies, and practices for key industry sectors. Each volume covers, for each industry sector: * manufacturing technologies * waste management * pollution control and remediation * methods for estimating and reporting emissions * treatment and control technologies * health risk exposures for workers and the wider community * cost data for pollution management * cleaner production and prevention options * safe chemical handling practices Best Practices in the Agrochemi

Fertilizer use in African agriculture : lessons learned and good practice guidelines
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ISBN: 082136880X 0821368818 9780821368800 9780821368817 9786610765812 128076581X Year: 2007 Publisher: Washington, DC : World Bank,

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Fertilizer use in Africa as compared to other developing regions has been limited. What types of policies and programs are needed to realize the potential benefits of fertilizer in African agriculture? This book summarizes key lessons learned from past efforts to promote fertilizer in Africa, provides an overview of the current state of knowledge concerning technical aspects of fertilizer use in Africa, and presents good practice guidelines for promoting sustainable increases in fertilizer use.

The international spirits industry
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ISBN: 9781855738799 1855738791 1855734613 9781855734616 1855738783 9781855735118 1855735113 9781855738782 1280372400 9781280372407 9781885734617 1885734611 9786610372409 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Woodhead Publishing Limited,

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Although consumption of spirits on a global scale is vast, the spirits industry derives its profits from a relatively small number of countries and product lines. This valuable book provides an overview of all aspects of the industry, covering all major categories of spirits, and contains a wealth of information on trading statistics, regulations and consumption patterns. It discusses the challenges facing the giant companies, profiling the leading companies in detail, and assesses whether their structure is appropriate to long-term success in the industry.The international spirits ind

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