Viewpoint: Genetically modified crop advantage: Block on advanced sustainable farming technology cripples Africa’s goal of food and farming independence

Viewpoint: Genetically modified crop advantage: Block on advanced sustainable farming technology cripples Africa’s goal of food and farming independence

Chris Mandu | Nation Africa |
The future growth of Africa will be driven through conventional breeding approaches and the use of biotechnologies, which can produce ...
Biotechnology is the way forward for many of Africa's most pressing challenges

Biotechnology is the way forward for many of Africa’s most pressing challenges

Vitumbiko Chinoko | Nation Africa |
Biotechnology is one of the modern-day scientific innovations that are widely misunderstood, especially in Africa. Often regarded as a complex ...
a young man in drought conditions in ethiopia

South Africa has grown genetically modified corn for 27 years. Here’s what Kenya and the rest of Africa can learn from their experience

Brygettes Ngana | Nation Africa |
South Africa was one of the last countries to gain independence, but it has some valuable insights into food security ...
gilles eric seralini

Here’s how French activist-professor Gilles-Éric Séralini’s retracted and discredited paper — that claims GMO crops and glyphosate cause cancer — continues to undermine Kenyan agriculture

Mark Lynas, Victor Oria | Nation Africa |
The October 17 dismissal of a defamation case in France against journalists who rubbished research by Giles Eric Séralini discrediting ...
As climate change devastation escalates across Africa, crop biotechnology innovation offers science-based help

As climate change devastation escalates across Africa, crop biotechnology innovation offers science-based help

Emmanuel Okogbenin | Nation Africa |
Changing weather patterns including rising temperatures, increasing drought incidences, floods and the proliferation of plant diseases are some of its ...
Viewpoint: Kenya is the world epicenter for misinformation about agricultural biotechnology. Here's why this needs to change

Viewpoint: Kenya is the world epicenter for misinformation about agricultural biotechnology. Here’s why this needs to change

Victor Oria | Nation Africa |
Kenyan Opposition leader and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga recently criticised the government's move to import genetically modified (GM) maize ...