increasing banana production and productivity

Rwandan scientists are deploying genetic modification to rescue its disease-endangered banana crop

Zablon Oyugi | Farmers Review Africa |
Scientists in Rwanda have made a major breakthrough in fight against banana Panama Diseases through agricultural biotechnology by coming up ...
Ugandan field trials demonstrate significant economic benefits for farmers growing insect-resistant Bt maize

Ugandan field trials demonstrate significant economic benefits for farmers growing insect-resistant Bt maize

African scientists have demonstrated that genetically modified Bt maize offers much higher yields and better pest resistance than conventional varieties ...
Gene editing can increase yields, improve nutrition, fight climate change — and bring native species back to African agriculture

Gene editing can increase yields, improve nutrition, fight climate change — and bring native species back to African agriculture

Farmers Review Africa |
Gene editing is making it easier for researchers to help local plants varieties adapt to changes in the local environments ...
'Eating is believing’: How Nigerian consumers are taking to new GMO cowpeas

‘Eating is believing’: How Nigerian consumers are taking to new GMO cowpeas

Joseph Maina | Farmers Review Africa |
"I've tasted the akara GMO," [All Farmers Association of Nigeria Chairman Otunba Oke Babafemi] exclaimed at the inaugural Eating is ...
Viewpoint: ‘Lower food prices, limiting exposure to toxins, fewer diseases in crops.’ These are the advances missed by countries that reject GM technology

Viewpoint: ‘Lower food prices, limiting exposure to toxins, fewer diseases in crops.’ These are the advances missed by countries that reject GM technology

Joseph Maina | Farmers Review Africa |
Two new papers aim to quantify the social welfare and economic costs that countries inflict upon themselves by restricting the ...
Viewpoint: With two decades of resounding GMO maize success, South Africa offers lessons on food security for the rest of the continent

Viewpoint: With two decades of resounding GMO maize success, South Africa offers lessons on food security for the rest of the continent

Joseph Maina | Farmers Review Africa |
African countries in the south of the Sahara have a lot to learn from South Africa’s successes in Genetically Modified ...