Malawi’s Seed Sector Calls on Govt to Adopt GM Crops
Malawi’s seed sector has called on the Government to consider genetically modified drought tolerant maize to counter the food [...]
Swaziland’s Agric Director Expresses Support to Amend Biosafety Law
Swaziland’s Director for Agriculture, Mr. Nelson Mavuso, has urged members of parliament to fast-track the proposed amendment to the [...]
Africa Joins the World in Celebrating 20 years of Successful Commercial Production of [...]
African Farmers Planted 3.5 Million Hectares of Biotech/GM Crops in 2015, the 20th year of global GM crops commercialization Nairobi (April 13, [...]
AfriCenter Participates in Agri-Biotechnology Sensitization Workshops in West Africa
AfriCenter participated in an agri-biotechnology and biosafety workshop in Abuja, Nigeria, between the 17th and 18th of March 2016. The workshop [...]
Malawi Approves Confined Field Trials for Transgenic Bananas
The Malawi National Biosafety Regulatory Committee (NBRC) approved confined field trials for banana on 26th February 2016. This comes soon after [...]
Kenya’s Permanent Secretary Urges for Increased Efforts on Biotechnology and [...]
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Prof Collette Suda, has called on biotechnology and biosafety [...]
Out of the Board room into the Fields: Kenya’s Biosafety Board and Appeals Board [...]
Members of the Kenya National Biosafety Authority board and Appeals board went on an in-country biotech study tour on the 22nd February 2016. The [...]
Kenya Approves Limited Release of GM Maize
Following an application submitted by Kenya Agricultural Livestock and Research Organisation (KALRO) and the African Agricultural Technology [...]
Uganda’s First Field Observation of GM Potato Shows Extreme Resistance to Late Blight
A first field trial, October 2015 to January 2016, has just been completed at the Kachwekano Zonal Agricultural Research and Development [...]