Category: Stories from the Field

New breeding innovations are increasing the efficiency of improving crops with valuable traits. In Africa, [...]

When the Virus Resistant Cassava for Africa (VIRCA) Plus project team, led by Kenya Agricultural and Livestock [...]

The use of genome editing in animal research is fast gaining traction in Africa. A number of countries on the [...]

Malawi is in her second year of cultivation of the genetically modified cotton variety BollGuard II, also commonly [...]

By Michael J. Ssali According to the latest Global Hunger Index report, Uganda’s hunger situation has been [...]

Kenyan experts have backed animal biotechnology to improve livestock, poultry and fish farming in Africa. This was [...]

Professor Steven Runo, a molecular biologist at Kenyatta University, Kenya, was recently announced winner of Royal [...]

By Kwame Ogero, International Potato Center (CIP) Cultivar decline, a progressive reduction in yields from season [...]

By Gaudiose Mujawamariya As infections with COVID-19 appear to be intensifying in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), fears [...]

By Dr. Joseph K. Muiruri  I have always been fascinated by interactions between science, technology and environment [...]