Category: Story of the Week

Malawi has approved its Genome Editing Guidelines joining Nigeria and Kenya as the only African countries to do so. [...]

Ghana National Biosafety Authority has approved the environmental release of Bt Cowpea, making it the second [...]

Former Irish playwright the late George Bernard Shaw famously remarked that, “the single biggest problem in [...]

By Prof. Ann Muigai I always say that Genetics found me because I did not go in search of it. I completed my A [...]

By Daniel Osei Ofosu, PhD Hamda sits in front of his hut with chin in his hand. He wonders how he will be able to [...]

Cassava is an important food security crop and income earner for millions of smallholder farmers in Africa. It is [...]

By Margaret Karembu, PhD, MBS – Director, ISAAA AfriCenter Africa is endowed with rich biodiversity [...]

Livestock farmers in Kenya are staring at a bleak future following a dire shortage of livestock feeds, a situation [...]

Dear friends of ISAAA AfriCenter, The agricultural biotechnology landscape is not short of challenges. Despite the [...]

In October this year (2021), Africa recorded a milestone in crop biotech development when the Federal Government of [...]