This book examines the public stockholding policies of selected developing countries from the perspective of WTO rules and assesses whether the provisions of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could hamper these countries’ efforts to address the challenges of food security. Further, it highlights the need to amend the provisions of the AoA to make WTO rules just and fair for the millions of people suffering from hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. This book highlights that 12 ...

Plant-derived Hepatoprotective Drugs is a comprehensive guide that explores the world of medicinal plants and their hepatoprotective properties, offering both basic and applied insights for scholars and hepatology residents. Structured chapters provide a deep dive into the subject, while referencing relevant research and future perspectives. Readers will learn the science behind hepatotoxicity and the role of plants in safeguarding liver health. The book also helps researchers to explore b...

Adverse Effects of SARS-CoV Vaccines: Global Insights and Thrombotic Events is a concise, evidence-based examination of rare thrombotic events associated with certain COVID-19 vaccines, placing them within the broader context of vaccine safety, epidemiology, and public health decision-making. The book seeks to foster understanding by presenting balanced, scientifically grounded perspectives that support informed dialogue among healthcare professionals, policymakers, researchers, and the pu...

Quality Assurance of Ethno-Herbals: Cultivating Confidence in Alternative Medicine offers a comprehensive and scholarly examination of the essential methodologies, cultural considerations, and regulatory frameworks surrounding the quality assurance of ethno-herbal remedies. This volume bridges the rich legacy of traditional herbal practices with contemporary scientific inquiry, highlighting the critical need for rigorous validation, standardization, and ethical stewardship in the preservat...

Herbal Medicines for Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease offers a comprehensive exploration of traditional and contemporary approaches to managing neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The book examines how herbal medicine, nootropics, and complementary therapies can contribute to cognitive health, memory enhancement, and neuroprotection. It integrates foundational neuroscience with phytopharmacology to provide a holistic understanding of cognition-related disorde...

Herbal Medicines for Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease offers a comprehensive exploration of traditional and contemporary approaches to managing neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The book examines how herbal medicine, nootropics, and complementary therapies can contribute to cognitive health, memory enhancement, and neuroprotection. It integrates foundational neuroscience with phytopharmacology to provide a holistic understanding of cognition-related disorde...

This book ‘Extremophiles: Wastewater and Algal Biorefinery’ explores the potential of extremophiles/extremotolerant organisms in wastewater treatment, biorefining of algal biomass and in the treatment of industrial waste effluent. The book provides a holistic overview about the current status of extremophiles in waste water treatment and various industrial processes. The chapters comprehensively cover the scientific and research findings on various industrial applications of extremophiles ...

Sustainable procurement is the pursuit of sustainable development objectives through the purchasing and supply process, while balancing environmental, social, and economic objectives. This book will help readers develop new contemporary knowledge about frameworks, innovative tools and techniques to achieve sustainability in public as well as private procurement practices. The book will enable scholars and practitioners working in the domain of sustainable procurement to improve the overall...

This volume focuses on the prospects of the conversion of biomass into biofuels including ethanol, butanol, biogas, biohydrogen, biodiesel, syn-gas and other useful products. Biomass-derived fuels have gained tremendous attention worldwide. However, due to high raw material and processing costs, biofuels produced from lignocelluloses have been found to be more expensive than conventional fuels. Therefore, a concept of biorefining has been introduced, where more than one product or each and...

The application of herbal excipients and natural polymers in wound healing emerges as a promising area of research in pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences. These natural substances offer biocompatibility, biodegradability, and therapeutic properties such as anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and antioxidant effects, which accelerate the wound healing process. Unlike synthetic materials, herbal excipients and polymers often pose fewer side effects and can enhance tissue regeneration throug...

This book covers the theory, modeling, and implementation of different RF energy harvesting systems. RF energy harvesting is the best choice among the existing renewable energy sources, in terms of availability, cost, size, and integration with other systems. The device used for harvesting RF energy is called rectenna. A rectenna can work at the microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz waves. It also has the capability to operate at optical frequencies to be used for 6G and beyond communi...

Adverse Effects of SARS-CoV Vaccines: Global Insights and Thrombotic Events is a concise, evidence-based examination of rare thrombotic events associated with certain COVID-19 vaccines, placing them within the broader context of vaccine safety, epidemiology, and public health decision-making. The book seeks to foster understanding by presenting balanced, scientifically grounded perspectives that support informed dialogue among healthcare professionals, policymakers, researchers, and the pu...