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Activists threaten adoption of virus resistant GMO cassava that could rescue Africa’s staple

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Anti-GMO activists caught spreading scare stories and lies about virus resistant and nutritionally enhanced GMO cassava ...
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As disease threatens Uganda’s banana crop, ActionAid and anti-GMO groups fan fears

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Uganda is an emerging battle ground where anti-GMO activists try to scuttle introduction of a transgenic banana that could rescue ...
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Transgenic solution to virus-threatened African cassava faces anti-GMO protests

Genetic Literacy Project | 
The cassava, a key African staple especially valued because of its drought tolerance, is threatened by numerous viruses. Conventional agriculture ...
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Documentarian Scott Hamilton Kennedy explores why activists block GMO solution to African banana wilt crisis

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Poor farmers are in a panic. African anti-GMO activists blocking implementation of disease resistant GMO banana, but offer no solutions ...
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ActionAid in Africa ensnared by its own ugly GMO cancer scare tactics

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Although the UK based NGO is scrambling to distance itself from its fear efforts in Uganda, GLP's African contributing writer ...
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Death of British journalist after eating organic peanuts highlights absurdity of GMO safety scare

Genetic Literacy Project | 
The tragic death of a British journalist in Uganda who died of a toxic reaction to an organic groundnut underscores ...
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Will Tanzania follow Burkina Faso in embracing GM crops to fight ravaging diseases?

Genetic Literacy Project | 
There is a groundswell of popular support for crop biotechnology among African farmers, with Uganda and Burkina Faso the most ...
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African elites blame early puberty on GMOs, sabotaging nutrition-enhanced cassava, matooke

Genetic Literacy Project | 
It is fashionable in Africa to blame everyinexplicable heath condition on genetic engineered food. It's part of a campaign organized ...

Monsanto’s perceived or real evil a creation of capitalism, biotechnology a scapegoat

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Monsanto, an American agro-biotech giant with several operational offices and products across the globe has been every Activist’s reference in ...
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African Christian asks: Is genetic engineering contrary to the Bible?

Genetic Literacy Project | 
In Africa, where the battle over GMOs is intensifying, some critics claim genetic engineering violates Christian dogma. Is that accurate? ...

Ugandan scientists develop disease-resistant banana, but law may prohibit it from reaching farmers

New Vision | 
Banana bacterial wilt, a disease caused by Xanthomonas bacteria, is so devastating to banana and extremely burdensome and costly to ...

Why Africa should embrace crop biotechnology

Daily Monitor | 
Uganda passed a Biotechnology and Biosafety Policy in 2008 and later drafted and tabled Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill which is ...

Regulating research in Uganda does not mean stopping research

New Vision | 
Regulation should be part of any human activity as it creates a safe boundary for operation. Regulation is part of ...

Uganda: Genetic modification in crops a natural process of survival

New Vision | 
The following is an edited excerpt. For organisms to adapt to changing environment, they at times undergo genetic modifications. Naturally, ...

Fears about GMOs among some Ugandans unfounded

Daily Monitor | 
The following is an excerpt. GMO is ... one of the options that should be adopted to quicken the process ...
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