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Food sufficiency: Hope rises as Nigeria, Africa leverage genome ed

Genome editing can help to address that by maximising a crop’s yield; enhancing that actual yield to be optimal.

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Countries from Global South urged to harmonize regulatory frameworks on biotechnology

Global South countries have been told to harmonize their regulatory approaches for biotechnology and new breeding techniques.Kenya’s National Biosafety Authority (NBA) chief executive, Dr Roy Mugiira, said many countries in the Global North have adopted a common approach to regulating these new technologies. The Global South should learn from them and follow suit.“The United Kingdom, for example, enacted legislation based on the approaches that we have taken,” said Mugiira.

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Part I: With Kenya poised to embrace growing and importing genetically modified crops, Ugandan farmers and scientists bemoan their country s inaction

The decision last fall by newly-elected Kenyan President, Dr. William Samoei arap Ruto to lift his country’s 10-year ban on GM-food imports and cultivation currently being evaluated by the High Court has sparked a grassroots push in neighboring Uganda to follow Kenya’s president’s embrace of modern ag technology.

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Kenya s GMO maize push sowing trouble for food sector, farmers warn

Ruto said the move to allow pest-resistant GMO crops was necessary to boost crop yields and ensure food security, an argument dismissed by maize growers like Olela and a smallholder farmers' group that has filed a lawsuit against the government to have the decision overturned. Olela says GMO crops pose a threat to a "sustainable" tradition of recycling seeds, leaving maize growers dependent on big foreign companies that own the patents to GMO seeds.

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