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Viewpoint: Genetically modified crop advantage: Block on advanced sustainable farming technology cripples Africa’s goal of food and farming independence
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 one of the modern-day scientific innovations that are widely misunderstood, especially in Africa. Often regarded as a complex ...
South Africa has grown genetically modified corn for 27 years. Here’s what Kenya and the rest of Africa can learn from their experience
South Africa was one of the last countries to gain independence, but it has some valuable insights into food security ...
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
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
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
Kenyan Opposition leader and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga recently criticised the government's move to import genetically modified (GM) maize ...