Change of Guard at Kenya’s Biosafety Authority
Dr Roy Mugiira has been appointed the acting Chief Executive Officer of the National Biosafety Authority (NBA), Kenya, following Prof. Dorrington [...]
ISAAA AfriCenter becomes an Excellence Through Stewardship Member
ISAAA AfriCenter is now an Excellence Through Stewardship (ETS) Associate member. ETS is a global organisation that promotes the adoption of [...]
How Genome Editing will address the Challenge of Cassava Breeding in Africa
Cassava is an important food security crop and income earner for millions of smallholder farmers in Africa. It is the second most important food [...]
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 [...]
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
Livestock farmers in Kenya are staring at a bleak future following a dire shortage of livestock feeds, a situation that has exorbitantly pushed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]