Michael Ssali
Viewpoint: Uganda drags its feet while other African countries begin embracing genetic revolution in food and farming
It is still a mystery why it has taken so long for agriculture in Uganda to have a clear regulatory ...
Uganda’s challenge: Climate change, crop disease and pests are crippling agriculture. Here’s why new solutions are so desperately needed
Climate change has come along with incurable crop diseases and insurmountable pests and our main cash and food crops are ...
Viewpoint: Ordinary African farmers should not be blocked from technologically-advanced agricultural solutions helping the rest of the world
Besides the long drought making food production difficult there are crop pests and diseases that are steadily wiping out staple ...
Viewpoint: 2,000 Nigerian farmers are reaping benefits from genetically modified Bt cowpea. Other African countries could leverage similar biotechnology tools
A number of African countries have begun to take advantage of agricultural biotechnology to overcome crop production challenges. The last ...
Viewpoint: Uganda’s ‘mistrust of science’ threatens local farming innovation and economic growth
Uganda is merely watching as other countries embrace technologies such as biotechnology that are transforming agriculture and earning them huge ...
GM banana could help Uganda’s farmers battle bacterial wilt, but the country needs a biosafety law first
My attention has been drawn to an article I recently read in the digital Genetic Literacy Project newsletter authored by ...
Viewpoint: Anti-science activists beware—Uganda’s president knows GMO crops are good for farmers
We came to learn about a month ago that [Ugandan] President [Yoweri] Museveni had referred the Biotechnology and Bio-safety Bill ...
African farmer: Europe vote blocks GMOs and modern farming, dooming us to food subsistence
An African journalist and farmer speaks out against the European Parliament's call to block GMO cultivation in Africa, calling it ...
Crop losses due to disease cost Uganda hundreds of millions, biotech could help
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Due to climate change ...
Uganda progresses in ag biotech research but lags behind in implementation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Kenya is about to ...
Farmer’s diary: The biotech debate and our challenges
The following is an excerpt. You could have read Nassib Mugwanya’s article, Are GMOs really the threat? in Seeds of ...
Ugandan farmer’s diary: The biotech debate and our challenges
The following is an excerpt. The legalisation of biotechnology is not to outlaw organic farming, which is to sustain soil ...
