AfriCenter and OFAB Kenya Conducts Media Outreach Campaign to Address Livestock Feed [...]
The role of the media in promoting and facilitating the adoption of agricultural technologies cannot be gainsaid. It sensitizes and educates the [...]
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Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources: Which Way for Africa?
By Margaret Karembu, PhD, MBS – Director, ISAAA AfriCenter Africa is endowed with rich biodiversity stretching from terrestrial, marine and [...]
![Kenyan Livestock Farmers Appeal for Importation of GM Animal Feeds Kenyan Livestock Farmers Appeal for Importation of GM Animal Feeds](https://africenter.isaaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CBU_PHOTO-Kenyan-Livestock-Farmers-Appeal-for-Importation-of-GM-Animal-Feeds-300x200.jpg)
Kenyan Livestock Farmers Appeal for Importation of GM Animal Feeds
Livestock farmers in Kenya are staring at a bleak future following a dire shortage of livestock feeds, a situation that has exorbitantly pushed [...]
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Moving to the DrumBeat: Repositioning for Greater Impact
Dear friends of ISAAA AfriCenter, The agricultural biotechnology landscape is not short of challenges. Despite the odds, Africa made remarkable [...]
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Key Lessons from Nigeria’s Environmental Approval of TELA Maize
In October this year (2021), Africa recorded a milestone in crop biotech development when the Federal Government of Nigeria granted environmental [...]
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AUDA-NEPAD’s call for support of genome editing: Why investing in this novel [...]
By Prof. Aggrey Ambali Modern science, technologies and innovations (STIs) continue to gain traction and play a key role in our contemporary [...]
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Nigeria Approves Genetically Modified TELA Maize for Open Cultivation
The Federal Government of Nigeria has granted environmental approval for evaluation and open cultivation of TELA Maize, a new maize variety [...]
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Key Lesson and Resolutions from the Africa Biennial Biosciences Symposium 2021
By Dr. Margaret Karembu, MBS ISAAA AfriCenter Director and Co- Convener ABBC 2021 The fourth edition of the Africa Biennial Biosciences [...]
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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, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing is already [...]