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Nigerian GMO cowpea farmers testify to reduced pest infestation and better yields
Nigerian farmers growing the country’s first GMO food crop — pod borer-resistant (PBR) cowpea, or beans — say they have ...
African scientists call for policies to support synthetic biology and other innovative technologies
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
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
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
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
Banning genetically modified crops and glyphosate will harm 40 percent of Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP), warned economist Fernando Cruz ...
Nigerian farmers just can’t get enough of GMO cowpea seeds
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 continues to show great promise for developing more resilient and climate-smart crops to counter the mounting threat of ...
GM crops: Kenya and Nigeria progress as Uganda falters
Though several African countries, including Kenya, Nigeria and Ethiopia, are making tremendous strides in their quest to develop and commercialize ...
Bad press and wild claims have unfairly slowed GM crops on the continent, African scientists say
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 tend to have a generally positive view about genome-edited foods, though their awareness of the technology remains low, ...
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
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
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
Though breeding programs using genome editing remain in their infancy on the African continent, public research institutions are leading the ...
GM crops: ‘Let the farmers decide’
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 — a tree highly valued in Kenya and elsewhere for its hardy timber, wood fuel ...
CRISPR offers hope for controlling African swine fever
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
Technology that has been used to control mosquitoes and fall armyworm will now be applied to solving the world’s cattle ...
Seafood distributors welcome AquaBounty’s sustainable GM salmon
AquaBounty will mark a new milestone for truly sustainable seafood this month with the first commercial harvest of fast-growing genetically ...
Kenya looks to gene editing to grow its key food crops
Kenya’s agriculture is set to benefit from several gene-editing projects that target some of the country’s key food crops and ...
Book review: Jennifer Thompson’s ‘GM Crops and the Global Divide’ offers lessons drawn from the history of the agricultural biotechnology revolution, for activists to CRISPR advocates
I’ve spent the last few weeks reading “GM Crops and the Global Divide,” the new book by Jennifer Thomson, emeritus professor at ...
Over 2,000 Nigerian farmers ready to grow GM cowpea this year
More than 2,000 Nigerian farmers are planning to plant Bt cowpea, the country’s first genetically modified food crop, in July ...
Kenyan farmers reap bountiful first harvest of GM cotton
Winfred Kasambu, a 50-year-old farmer and a grandmother of two from Kenya’s Eastern region, is cherishing high hopes of prosperity ...
CRISPR may help curb malaria by altering a mosquito’s gut genes, new study suggests
Altering a mosquito’s gut genes to make them spread antimalarial genes to the next generation of their species shows promise ...
Brazil approves environmentally ‘Friendly’ GM tool for controlling fall armyworm
Brazilian farmers are a step closer to using an environmentally friendly tool to control a destructive agricultural pest with the ...
Five reasons to be optimistic about the future of genome editing
Though the past year delivered social, economic, health and personal difficulties that challenged people across the globe, science strutted its ...
