Kenyan Farmers Call On The Gov’t to Allow GM Products
Farmers from Kilifi County in the northern part of Kenya have voiced their support for agri-biotech and called on the government to lift the ban [...]
Kenyan Youth Embrace Biotechnology for Environmental Conservation
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Tanzania Deputy Minister for Agri Advocates Adoption of Biotech in Agriculture
Tanzania’s Assistant Minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Mr. Godfrey Zambi, said that Tanzania cannot afford to [...]
New Offering for Farmers in South Africa
The new Drought tolerant maize trait, MON 87460 has been approved by the Executive Council of the GMO Act for conditional general release in the [...]
Next Harvest II Report Launched in Kenya
The National Commission for Science Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI), the body charged with advising the government on scientific innovations, [...]
ISAAA Report Launched in Benin, Swaziland, Zambia, and Malawi
ISAAA AfriCenter and Swaziland Environment Authority (SEA) launched the ISAAA annual global status report on GM crops (Brief 49), on the 13th of [...]
The Last Thing Africa Needs to be Debating is GMOs
By Tamar Haspel. This post originally appeared in The Washington Post Tamar Haspel visited Nairobi, Kenya, to attend the #ABBC2015 confrence in [...]
Government Urged to Lift Ban on GMO Imports in Kenya During ABBC-2015
Delegates from 30 countries from around the world, attending an international Agri-biotech and Biosafety Communication conference in Nairobi have [...]
Nairobi ABBC-2015 Declaration
We, the participants of the International Conference on Agri-Biotechnology and Biosafety Communication, held on 12-14 April 2015 in Nairobi, [...]