Nanotechnology for enhancing food security in India

Food Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 391-400

  Kalpana Sastry, R ^a   Rashmi, H B ^a   Rao, N H ^a  

^a National Academy of Agricultural Research Management India   (India)

Author keywords

Agri value chain; Food production; Food security; India; Nanotechnology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CAPACITY BUILDING; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SECURITY; GREEN REVOLUTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; THEMATIC MAPPING;

INDIA;

EID: 79955484928     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2010.10.012     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Barnett T.P., Adam J.C., Lettermaier D.P. Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow-dominated regions. Nature 2005, 438:303-309.
2. Borlaug N.E. Feeding a hungry world. Science 2007, 318:359.
3. Brewster A.L., Hansen S.A., Chapman A.R. Facilitating humanitarian access to pharmaceutical and agricultural innovation. Intellectual Property Management in Health and Agricultural Innovation: A Handbook of Best Practices 2007, MIHR, PIPRA, Oxford, UK, Davis, USA, . A. Krattiger, R.T. Mahoney, L. Nelsen (Eds.).
4. Cakmak I. Plant nutrition research: priorities to meet human needs for food in sustainable ways. Plant Soil 2002, 247:3-24.
5. Choi C., Park Y. Monitoring the organic structure of technology based on patent development paths. Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change 2009, 76:754-768.
6. Chowdhury Nupur Regulatory supervision of emerging technologies: a case for nanotechnology in India. Econ. Polit. Week. 2006, 18(November):4730-4732.
7. Daim T.U., Rueda G., Martin H., Gerdsri P. Forecasting emerging technologies: use of bibliometrics and patent analysis. Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change 2006, 73(8):981-1012.
8. FAO, 1996. Report of the World Food Summit. FAO, Rome.
9. Gregory P.J., Ingram J.S.I., Brklacich M. Climate change and food security. Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. B 2005, 360:2139-2148.
10. Hightower M., Pierce S.A. The energy challenge. Nature 2008, 452:285-286.
11. Horrigan L., Lawrence R.S., Walker P. How sustainable agriculture can address the environment and human health harms of industrial agriculture. Environ. Health Perspect. 2002, 110:445-456.
12. Hullmann A., Meyer M. Publications and patents in nanotechnology: an overview of previous studies and the state of the art. Scientometrics 2003, 58(3):507-527.
13. ICAR, 2006. ICAR Guidelines for Intellectual Property Management and Technology Transfer/Commercialization. Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, October 2006, pp. 120.
14. IPC, 2009. pp. 1-37. Internet Version of the Classification Available at: (accessed 15.10.09). http://www.wipo.int/classifications/ipc/ipc8/?lang=en.
15. Kalpana Sastry, R., Rao, N.H., Cahoon, R., Tucker, T., 2007. Can nanotechnology provide the innovations for a second green revolution in Indian agriculture? In: Paper Presented in NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Grantees Conference, December 3-6, 2007. http://www.nseresearch.org/2007/overviews/Sastry_speaker.doc.
16. Kalpana Sastry, R., Rashmi, H.B., Rao N.H., Ilyas, S.M., 2009. Nanotechnology and agriculture in India: the second green revolution? In: Invited Paper Presented in: Presented in Session IV. OECD Conference on Potential Environmental Benefits of Nanotechnology: Fostering Safe Innovation-Led Growth, 15-17 July 2009, OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France. http://www.oecd.org/nanobenefits.
17. Kalpana Sastry R., Rashmi H.B., Rao N.H., Ilyas S.M. Integrating nanotechnology into agri-food systems research in India: a conceptual framework. Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change 2010, 77:639-648.
18. Kalpana Sastry R., Rashmi H.B., Rao N.H. Nanotechnology patents as R&D indicators for disease management strategies in agriculture. J. Intell. Prop. Rights 2010, 1(5):197-205.
19. Kostoff R.N., Koytcheff R.G., Lau C.G.Y. Global nanotechnology research literature overview. Curr. Sci. 2007, 92(11):1492-1498.
20. Kuzma, J., Verhage, P., 2006. Nanotechnology in Agriculture and Food Production: Anticipated Applications. Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies and the Consortium on Law, Values and Health and Life Sciences. Centre for Science, Technology and Public Policy (CSTPP), September 2006. http://www.nanotechproject.org/50.
21. Linton J.D., Walsh S.T. A theory of innovation for process-based innovations such as nanotechnology. Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change 2008, 75:583-594.
22. Mehta S.L. Globalization-food security and the socio-economic overview. Kasetsart J. Nat. Sci. 1997, 32:27-31.
23. Menon, P., Deolalikar, A., Bhaskar, A., 2009. India State Hunger Index. Comparisons of Hunger Across States. International Food Policy Research Institute, Welthungerhilf and UC, Riverside, Washington, DC, Bonn, and Riverside.
24. Mitchell L. Issues in food security. Agric. Inform. Bull. Num. 2001, 765-811. ERS,USDA 1-2.
25. MSSRF, 2004. M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Centre for Research on Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development, World Food Programme. Atlas of the Sustainability of Food Security in India, pp. 294. (accessed 25.09.09). http://openlibrary.org/b/OL3333082M/Atlas_of_the_sustainability_of_food_security_in_India.
26. NAARM, 2009. Annual Report. NAIP Project on " Assessing Interrelationships between Developments in Nanotechnology and Agriculture" Visioning Policy Analysis and Gender Subproject; National Agricultural Innovation Project
27. NSF, 2001. Societal implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology. In: Roco, M.C., Bainbridge, W.S. (Eds.), Report of a Workshop Run by the National Science Foundation, 28-29 September 2000. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.
28. Opara, L., 2004. Emerging technological innovation triad for smart agriculture in the 21st century. Part I. Prospects and impacts of nanotechnology in agriculture, agricultural engineering international. CIGR J. Sci. Res. Dev. VI (invited overview paper).
29. Parry M.L., Rosenzweig C., Iglesias A., Livermore M., Fischer G. Effects of climate change on global food production under SRES emissions and socioeconomic scenario. Global Environ. Change 2004, 14:53-67.
30. Planning Commission, 2007a. Agricultural Strategy for Eleventh Plan: Some Critical Issues. Government of India, May 2007, pp. 18.
31. Planning Commission, 2007b. Eleventh Five Year Plan, 2007-2012. Agriculture, Rural Development, Industry, Services, and Physical Infrastructure, vol. III, pp. 1-40. (accessed 15.09.09). http://planningcommission.gov.in/plans/planrel/fiveyr/11th/11_v3/11th_vol3.pdf.
32. Roco M.C. Broader societal issues of nanotechnology. J. Nanopart. Res. 2003, 5(3-4):181-189.
33. Rosenwzeig C., Parry M.L. Potential impact of climate change on world food supply. Nature 1994, 367:133-138.
34. Strategic Applications Integrating Nano Science [SAiNSCE], 2009. Nanotechnology Applications for Agriculture and Food. (accessed 25.08.09). http://www.sainsce.com/aboutus.aspx.
35. Salamanca-Buentello F., Persad D.L., Court E.B., Martin D.K., Daar A.S., Singer P.A. Nanotechnology and the developing world. PLoS Med. 2005, 2(5):302.
36. Salerno M., Landoni P., Verganti R. Designing foresight studies for nanoscience and nanotechnology (NST) future developments. Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change 2008, 75:1202-1223.
37. Scrinis G., Lyons K. The emerging nano-corporate paradigm: nanotechnology and the transformation of nature, food and agri-food systems. Int. J. Sociol. Food Agric. 2007, 15(2):22-44.
38. Tullis, T., 2004. Current Intellectual Property Issues in Nanotechnology. UCLA J.L. & Tech. Notes 12. 11 p.
39. UN Millennium Project, 2005. Innovation: Applying Knowledge in Development. Task Force on Science, Technology, and Innovation, pp. 1-195. ISBN: 1-84407-218-5. (accessed 23.08.09). http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/Science-complete.pdf.
40. Ward, H.C., Datta, J., 2005. Nanotechnology for Agriculture and Food Systems - A View, 14 p. (accessed 20.08.09). http://www.nano.ait.ac.th.
41. Wiesmann, D., Weingartner, L., Schoeninger, I., Schwarte, V., 2006. The Challenge Of Hunger: Global Hunger Index: Facts, Determinants, and Trends. Case Studies in the Post-conflict Countries of Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. Welthungerhilfe and International Food Policy Research Institute, Bonn and Washington, DC.