Kenya Deploys Striga-Smart Sorghum
Kenya has taken lead in providing sorghum farmers with a technology-based solution to the Striga menace. In a media science café hosted by OFAB Kenya, [...]
AfriCenter Contributes towards Strengthening Soft Skills of Next-Generation Livestock [...]
ISAAA AfriCenter participated in ILRI’s CapDev Grand Challenge research pitching contest that took place on 13th April, 2022. The Center had a sit on [...]
AfriCenter Joins Efforts Towards Capacitating One Health in Eastern and Southern Africa
ISAAA AfriCenter has joined a consortium of partners comprising of ILRI and CIRAD in a four-year project dubbed Capacitating One Health in Eastern and [...]
Kenya Publishes Genome Editing Regulations becoming Second African Country to do so
Kenya’s National Biosafety Authority (NBA) has published Genome Editing Guidelines, marking an important step towards development of a genome editing [...]
Stakeholders Call for Africanization of Genome Editing in Agriculture
Genome editing stakeholders in Africa have called for africanization of genome editing, an approach which they say will uniquely address agricultural [...]
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 genetically [...]
Kenya’s Health Minister Warns Misinformation Threatens Gains made against NCDs
Health stakeholders from across Africa have lamented the impact of mis/disinformation in the fight against COVID-19 and non-communicable diseases. Speaking [...]
Call for Story Pitches: OFAB Kenya Science Journalism Grant 2021
The Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa (OFAB) Kenya Chapter is glad to announce a call for story pitches for 2021 Science Journalism Grant. [...]
OFAB KENYA MEDIA AWARDS 2019: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa (OFAB) Kenya Chapter is glad to announce the 2019 call for participation in the annual OFAB Media [...]
African Agricultural Technology Foundation Establishes First Early Generation Seed [...]
The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) has establishment the first Early Generation (foundation) seed production entity in Sub-Saharan [...]