Archive for the 'GMO Africa Blog' Category
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- Journalist counsels Africa on GMOs | Posted by GMO Africa on Apr 04 2008
- Influential UK magazine roots for GM foods | Posted by GMO Africa on Mar 22 2008
- Stop this violence against science | Posted by GMO Africa on Mar 13 2008
- Researcher wants biosafety laws in Africa | Posted by GMO Africa on Mar 06 2008
- ISAAA reports a surge in biotech crops cultivation | Posted by GMO Africa on Feb 21 2008
- No more teary onion, thanks to genetic engineering | Posted by GMO Africa on Feb 05 2008
- France must tread carefully on GM crops | Posted by GMO Africa on Jan 20 2008
- My vision of biotech debate in 2008 | Posted by GMO Africa on Jan 03 2008
- New study discounts GM crops gene flow theory | Posted by GMO Africa on Dec 16 2007
- Nature opens up its genome sequencing literature | Posted by GMO Africa on Dec 10 2007
Journalist Kerry Howley of the Reason magazine has written a very riveting and informative article on how fear is being used to deny Africa cutting-edge technologies. Howley writes how activists descend on Africa every time new technologies emerge. They, using apocalyptic theories, misadvise and mislead Africans into not embracing these technologies.
Africans are usually warned of […]
The influential UK magazine, Country Life, this week editorialized on the controversial issue of genetically modified (GM) foods. The editorial’s author, Mark Hedges, strongly vouched for GM foods, a stance which earned him barbs and ridicule from anti-biotech groups like the Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth (FoE).
In this editorial entitled, Time to Love […]
I, and I’m sure most of you, detest the use of force to protest the use of new technologies. We’re all familiar with protestors storming coal plants; or staging protests against the building of nuclear plants, like it happened in Austria in 2001; or blocking airport runways to prevent “greenhouse gas-emitting” jets that activists charge […]
Professor Walter Alhassan, a renowned agricultural biotechnologist from Ghana, recently raised a very salient issue regarding agricultural biotechnology in Africa. Alhassan moaned the unwillingness by African governments to enact laws to regulate safe acquisition of agricultural biotechnology. Alhassan regretted that the absence of biosafety laws in many African countries remains the greatest impediment to […]
The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) has released a report that shows a surge in cultivation of biotech crops. Contrary to many anti-biotech critics, the surge seems to portend biotech crops striking a nerve with farmers.
What’s perhaps more interesting is the fact that developing countries continue to perform as well as […]
The blog, Rael the Prophet, reports on an article in the UK Telegraph about a research on a genetically engineered tear-free onion being collaboratively conducted by researchers from Japan and the New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research. We’re all aware how teary an onion can be if mishandled when chopping. To men and […]
France on Friday slapped a ban on the cultivation of a maize variety genetically modified to resist European corn borer. President Nicholas Sarkozy, when challenged to justify the decision, said his government had invoked the “safeguard precaution” clause contained in the European law on genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
The maize in contention is MON 810 […]
Blogger Brandon Keim has made a very interesting post on the Wired Science blog. Entitled, “A New Year’s Resolution: Use Less Plastic,” the post lists wishes Brandon would like fulfilled in 2008. I must confess that as we leapt from 2007 to 2008 on Monday night, I never thought of cataloguing my wishes for the […]
There has been an explosive debate on the effects of genetically modified (GM) crops on human health and the environment. Critics, especially the Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, have sought to cast GM crops as posing great threat to conventional farming methods. They contend that GM crops haven’t been tested enough and, therefore, threaten […]
Genetic Maize blog reports that the Nature Publishing Group(NPG), which publishes the Nature magazine and Nature journals, has “…opened up all paper reporting genome sequences to the public.”
In an editorial, NPG explains that under the ‘creative commons’ license, papers reporting full genome sequences will be freely available for non-commercial use. So, a nongovernmental organization working […]
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