Viewpoint: What are the barriers limiting Africa from adopting genetically engineered and hybrid-improved seeds?

Viewpoint: What are the barriers limiting Africa from adopting genetically engineered and hybrid-improved seeds?

Breakthrough Institute | 
Over the last 15 years, development organizations including USAID, the UK’s DFID, and most prominently the Gates Foundation, have invested millions ...
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GM cassava research progresses in Uganda

Alliance for Science | 
Ugandan researchers are requesting permission to create permanent demonstration gardens of the improved crops ...
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Uganda’s GMO bill could become law without President’s assent

Alliance for Science | 
After more than a decade of deliberations, a bill that governs the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Uganda ...
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Young Ugandan biotech advocates push back against scare tactics of European and American-funded anti-GMO African environmental activists

Genetic Literacy Project | 
While many of his classmates worried, Jonan decided to work in defense of biotechnology ...
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Kenya, Ethiopia show neighboring Uganda how to revive its dying cotton industry with pest-tolerant technology

Alliance for Science | 
Cotton, once a cash cow in Uganda where growers aspired to outcompete each other in the acreage covered and income ...
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Potential of GMOs to combat crop diseases converting skeptical Ugandan politicians

New Vision | 
Ugandan banana breeders at Kawanda have improved local banana varieties to resist the devastating banana bacterial wilt. ... Potato breeders ...
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Viewpoint: Organic campaigners in Uganda use ‘scare tactics’ to keep GMO crops from farmers

New Vision | 
The organics are marketed as “sustainable agriculture”, “agro-ecology farming”, and “farming God’s way”. Organic products are branded natural, organic, safe, ...
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Ugandan farmers now wonder if they will ever get access to GMO crops

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Disease-resistant bananas, drought-resistant corn and other GMO crops developed by Ugandan scientists could help farmers increase yields, reduce pesticide use ...
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Blight-resistant GMO potatoes could reduce pesticide use in Uganda

Daily Monitor | 
Uganda is steadily progressing towards having a potato that will not require chemical spraying. ... According to Dr Alex Barekye, ...
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South African saga: Anti-GMO activist groups’ disinformation campaign against new disease-resistant corn

Genetic Literacy Project | 
South Africa's corn is already more than 90 percent GMO. An application to introduce an improved, disease-fighting variety has revved ...
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Uganda becomes newest country to approve growing of GMO, gene-edited crops

Alliance for Science | 
Uganda’s Parliament voted the long-awaited National Biosafety Act of 2017 into law ... ending years of governmental debate over whether ...
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Uganda on track to pass ‘biotech bill’ that should pave way for GMO crop commercialization

Alliance for Science | 
Uganda’s long-awaited national Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill was delayed again yesterday, but is likely to be passed next Tuesday [Oct ...
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Ugandan journalist: How do you report on crop biotechnology when critics spread misinformation?

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Genetic engineering could help Uganda combat some of its toughest food security challenges. But anti-GMO activists' misinformation campaigns are standing ...
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Hidden hunger: How anti-GMO activists are blocking humanitarian biofortification in Africa and Asia

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Many crops grown in the developing world are deficient in nutritional qualities--which makes biofortification critical if we hope to improve ...
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Does Uganda need GMOs? Scientists look to gene editing to spur innovation

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Even as scientists in Uganda and other African countries aggressively push for approvals of new disease-fighting GMO crops, the focus ...
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Uganda: From scorching drought to ravaging worms, poor pay the price for missing out on a biotech solution

Genetic Literacy Project | 
The food and famine crisis is finally bringing to a head the clash between anti-GMO activists, mostly European based, and ...
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Shifting political climate in Uganda may block greenlighting of GMOs

Alliance for Science | 
The Ugandan Parliament will resume debate on the stalled Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill when lawmakers return from recess later this ...
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Banana wilt, GMOs and Food Evolution: Behind the scenes in Uganda profiling desperate plight of poor farmers

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Despite claims by anti-GMO activists who say crop biotechnology mostly benefits big corporations, African farmers and poor people are the ...
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Uganda’s science march reveals love, frustration of young scientists

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Student scientists join global march in support of science, offer their thoughts on where things stand in Uganda ...
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How ‘human bees’, biotechnologists and Gates Foundation are rescuing the African cassava staple

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Neither conventional breeding nor genetic engineering alone can solve the viruses threatening Africa's key crop. Add some Gates' funding and ...
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How anti-modern farming agroecology NGOs spread GMO misinformation in Africa

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Europe and US-funded NGOs are spreading scare stories about GMO crops. Cornell Alliance for Science and other groups are trying ...
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Biotechnology could remove dirty feet from Uganda’s beloved beer

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Ugandans make beer by squishing banana's with their feet. But biotech may be able to offer a better way that ...
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Tanzanian women battle virus-fighting “liberator” cassava but challenges loom

Genetic Literacy Project | 
With the introduction of GMO crops still stalled in Tanzania, farmers and scientists are pressing ahead with alternative advanced farming ...
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D-Day approaches for Uganda’s Biosafety law, which could pave way for GMO crops

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Ugandan scientists allied with farmers and students clash with anti-GMO activists over long-delayed biosafety bill that could lead to introduction ...
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View from Uganda: Anti-GMO critics smear Cornell, African science communicators

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Cornell Alliance for Science has come under attack for reportedly promoting GMOs with dishonest, industry driven messages. But what is ...
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Why Iowa State ‘fortified’ GM banana trials are vital to Uganda

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Despite protests, many Ugandans could benefit from Iowa State research into 'golden banana.' ...
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Uganda’s President Museveni endorses GMOs, tipping scales in reluctant parliament

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Talking directly to members of the Ugandan Parliament and several farmers who continue to suffer the burden of banana bacterial ...
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‘Know GMO’ documentary, filming in Africa, challenges anti-GM scare campaign

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Documentary filmmakers travel to Uganda with hopes of bringing better understanding based on facts, evidence and science to the greater ...
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