Calestous Juma
Calestous Juma: Africa needs its own Green Revolution based on science and technology
Africa can learn from the Green Revolution model—which saved up to one billion people from starvation—by bringing together government, academia, ...
Why people oppose innovations like GMOs
In a newly released book, Professor Calestous Juma of . . . Harvard . . . chronicles the history of . . . opposition ...
How Europe is starving Africa by blocking GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It is estimated that ...
With new GMO maize, Kenya poised to become leader in African biotech
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Agricultural biotechnology critics are ...
BBC debate: Is GMO opposition grounded in science?
Should we embrace technology that could help feed the world, or are concerns about the impact of global agribusiness and ...
Biotech crops show global promise but suffer from restrictive regulations
A paper by Calestous Juma and Katherine Gordon at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs argues that although many transgenic crops ...
Global Risks of Rejecting Agricultural Biotechnology
With the demand for food expected to double by 2050, biotechnology can lead to increased food security, as well as ...
Role of biotechnology in global food security cannot be dismissed for ideological reasons
Biotechnology sceptics have a right to question the role of biotechnology in global food security. But they are wrong to ignore ...
Biotechnology is vital to Africa’s strategic interests
By Calestous Juma Global food politics is riddled with paradoxes. While threats to global food security are becoming increasingly evident, ...
Kenya: Why Kenya has to adopt biotechnology in farming
Today a new revolution is knocking at Africa's door-agricultural biotechnology. It promises to do for agriculture what mobile technology has ...
