African scientists call for policies to support synthetic biology and other innovative technologies

African scientists call for policies to support synthetic biology and other innovative technologies

John Agaba | Alliance for Science | 
Scientists in Africa are calling on the continent’s leaders to enact policies and other laws that can facilitate adoption of ...
Photo series: Nigeria welcomes GMO cowpea

Photo series: Nigeria welcomes GMO cowpea

Joseph Gakpo | Alliance for Science | 
Nigeria is the world’s largest producer and consumer of cowpea, popularly called beans. The country consumes more than 3.6 million ...
GMO bean benefits Brazil’s consumers and smallholder farmers

GMO bean benefits Brazil’s consumers and smallholder farmers

Luis Ventura | Alliance for Science | 
In a win for smallholder farmers and public sector research, Brazil grocery stores are now selling a genetically modified (GM) ...
Ugandan scientists developing drought tolerant coffee varieties to save valuable cash crop

Ugandan scientists developing drought tolerant coffee varieties to save valuable cash crop

John Agaba | Alliance for Science | 
After releasing coffee varieties resistant to wilt disease, Ugandan agricultural scientists have begun developing Robusta varieties that are drought-tolerant as ...
Mexico’s farm sector is already lagging as GM crop ban looms

Mexico’s farm sector is already lagging as GM crop ban looms

Luis Ventura | Alliance for Science | 
Banning genetically modified crops and glyphosate will harm 40 percent of Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP), warned economist Fernando Cruz ...
Uganda edges toward accepting biotechnology as climate challenges mount

Uganda edges toward accepting biotechnology as climate challenges mount

Richard Wetaya | Alliance for Science | 
Faced with weather extremes, food insecurity and a fast-growing population, there is growing acceptance in Uganda for adopting innovative biotechnologies ...
Nigerian farmers just can’t get enough of GMO cowpea seeds

Nigerian farmers just can’t get enough of GMO cowpea seeds

Joseph Gakpo | Alliance for Science | 
Nigeria is witnessing a shortage of genetically modified cowpea seeds as farmer demand for the insect-resistant crop dramatically outstrips supply ...
Gene editing can help agriculture adapt to climate change and meet UN Food Systems Summit goals

Gene editing can help agriculture adapt to climate change and meet UN Food Systems Summit goals

Joseph Maina | Alliance for Science | 
Gene editing continues to show great promise for developing more resilient and climate-smart crops to counter the mounting threat of ...
Gene editing has ‘limitless potential’ to reduce malnutrition, says global food expert

Gene editing has ‘limitless potential’ to reduce malnutrition, says global food expert

Joseph Gakpo | Alliance for Science | 
Gene editing is a tool with unlimited potential to help reduce malnutrition globally, said Dr. Lawrence Haddad, executive director of ...
Gene editing: Powerful tool for managing climate change

Gene editing: Powerful tool for managing climate change

Nicholas Karavolias | Alliance for Science | 
Growing up, my family spent summer weekends on the beaches of New York State. Riding in a car packed with ...
GMO eggplant is documented win for resource-poor farmers

GMO eggplant is documented win for resource-poor farmers

Joan Conrow | Alliance for Science | 
Insect-resistant brinjal, or eggplant, is arguably the most impactful project to bring agricultural biotechnology to resource-poor farmers. Studies show that ...
Insects: The sustainable future of food and feed?

Insects: The sustainable future of food and feed?

Busani Bafana | Alliance for Science | 
Call it protein on the fly, on the shuffle or on the crawl. Insects are the future of food, offering ...
GM crops: Kenya and Nigeria progress as Uganda falters

GM crops: Kenya and Nigeria progress as Uganda falters

John Agaba | Alliance for Science | 
Though several African countries, including Kenya, Nigeria and Ethiopia, are making tremendous strides in their quest to develop and commercialize ...
Genome editing poised to secure global food supply, study finds

Genome editing poised to secure global food supply, study finds

Joan Conrow | Alliance for Science | 
Genome editing is set to revolutionize plant breeding and could help secure the global food supply, according to a new ...
Bad press and wild claims have unfairly slowed GM crops on the continent, African scientists say

Bad press and wild claims have unfairly slowed GM crops on the continent, African scientists say

Joseph Maina | Alliance for Science | 
South African scientists are urging governments across the continent to take concrete actions to enhance the acceptability and adoption of ...
Western consumers have generally positive attitudes toward gene-edited foods, two new studies find

Western consumers have generally positive attitudes toward gene-edited foods, two new studies find

Joan Conrow | Alliance for Science | 
Western consumers tend to have a generally positive view about genome-edited foods, though their awareness of the technology remains low, ...
Nigeria moves forward with nitrogen-efficient GMO rice

Nigeria moves forward with nitrogen-efficient GMO rice

Nkechi Isaac | Alliance for Science | 
Still basking in the euphoria of commercializing sub-Saharan Africa’s first genetically modified (GM) food crop — insect-resistant cowpea —Nigeria has ...
Ease global regulatory burden to support ‘new revolution’ in crop breeding, researchers urge

Ease global regulatory burden to support ‘new revolution’ in crop breeding, researchers urge

Joan Conrow | Alliance for Science | 
It’s imperative to ease the regulatory burden on new crop breeding technologies that could feed a warmer, hungrier world, a ...
Kenya on track to commercialize GM maize by 2022 to increase yields, cut pesticide use

Kenya on track to commercialize GM maize by 2022 to increase yields, cut pesticide use

Whether it is ugali, a popular dish prepared from maize flour and often accompanied by meat, vegetables and pulses, or porridge, ...
South Africa has reaped major benefits from GM maize, study finds

South Africa has reaped major benefits from GM maize, study finds

Joseph Maina | Alliance for Science | 
Genetically modified (GM) maize has greatly improved food security in South Africa, reduced environmental damage and helped smallholder farmers achieve ...
Genetic engineering offers hope for effective vaccine against malaria

Genetic engineering offers hope for effective vaccine against malaria

Joan Conrow | Alliance for Science | 
Scientists have used genetic engineering to develop a vaccine that offers full protection against malaria in animal studies. Researchers and ...
Genome editing helps African researchers develop disease-resistant banana varieties

Genome editing helps African researchers develop disease-resistant banana varieties

Though breeding programs using genome editing remain in their infancy on the African continent, public research institutions are leading the ...
Kenya approves disease-resistant GMO cassava

Kenya approves disease-resistant GMO cassava

Joseph Maina | Alliance for Science | 
In yet another big win for its smallholder farmers, Kenya has become the first country globally to approve national performance ...
GM crops: ‘Let the farmers decide’

GM crops: ‘Let the farmers decide’

Joseph Gakpo | Alliance for Science | 
A South African scientist says it’s about time African governments prioritized the interests of farmers and allow them to use ...
Gene editing can prevent eucalyptus from becoming invasive

Gene editing can prevent eucalyptus from becoming invasive

Joseph Maina | Alliance for Science | 
Gene editing can prevent eucalyptus — a tree highly valued in Kenya and elsewhere for its hardy timber, wood fuel ...
Farmers warn Mexico’s GM corn ban will raise food prices

Farmers warn Mexico’s GM corn ban will raise food prices

Luis Ventura | Alliance for Science | 
Mexico’s farmer associations are teaming up and pushing back through legal battles in opposition to a presidential decree to ban ...
CRISPR offers hope for controlling African swine fever

CRISPR offers hope for controlling African swine fever

Joseph Maina | Alliance for Science | 
New vaccine trials hold great promise in the management of an East African strain of African swine fever (ASF), one ...
Gates Foundation funds research to control cattle ticks through biotechnology

Gates Foundation funds research to control cattle ticks through biotechnology

Joan Conrow | Alliance for Science | 
Technology that has been used to control mosquitoes and fall armyworm will now be applied to solving the world’s cattle ...
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