AfriCenter Maps-out One Health Stakeholders in Eastern and Southern Africa
ISAAA AfriCenter, in collaboration with ILRI and CIRAD, has so far conducted three net-mapping exercises to [...]
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World Government’s Delegates convene in Nairobi for Biosafety Negotiations
World governments met in Nairobi Kenya from June 20-26, 2022 for the 4th meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on [...]
OFAB Kenya Prepares Youth for Part II of the UN Biodiversity Conference
OFAB Kenya continues to mentor early career professionals to participate in discussions and negotiations under the [...]
Kenya Deploys Striga-Smart Sorghum
Kenya has taken lead in providing sorghum farmers with a technology-based solution to the Striga menace. In a media [...]
Kenya Publishes Genome Editing Regulations becoming Second African Country to do so
Kenya’s National Biosafety Authority (NBA) has published Genome Editing Guidelines, marking an important step [...]
Stakeholders Call for Africanization of Genome Editing in Agriculture
Genome editing stakeholders in Africa have called for africanization of genome editing, an approach which they say [...]
Genome Editing in Africa’s Agriculture: Crop Breeding 2.0
New breeding innovations are increasing the efficiency of improving crops with valuable traits. In Africa, [...]
GM Cassava Approval in Kenya: Lessons from the Virtual Public Participation Process
When the Virus Resistant Cassava for Africa (VIRCA) Plus project team, led by Kenya Agricultural and Livestock [...]
Inside Research Project Developing Genome Edited Chickens Resistant to Bird Flu
The use of genome editing in animal research is fast gaining traction in Africa. A number of countries on the [...]
Malawi Moves to Make Bt Cotton Seed Accessible for All
Malawi is in her second year of cultivation of the genetically modified cotton variety BollGuard II, also commonly [...]