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Features archive results 1-6 of 6 in Agriculture & Environment and Agri-biotech in Africa
Is GM shedding its Frankenstein image?
Developing world farmers are leading the way in the adoption of genetically modified crops.
Q&A: African Agriculture with Florence Wambugu
Florence Wambugu, winner of the 2008 YARA prize for African agriculture, speaks to SciDev.Net about the challenges facing the field.
Agri-biotech in Africa: Safety first?
Maryke Steffens reports on the influences behind Africa's diverse attitudes to transgenic crops, and the need for a unified agenda.
FEATURE | 12 June 2007 | EN
Agri-biotech in sub-Saharan Africa: Facts and figures
Dominic Glover outlines the status of agricultural biotechnology research, development and commercialisation in sub-Saharan Africa.
FEATURE | 5 June 2007 | EN
Seeds of capacity building in Africa's agriculture
Michael Malakata reports on efforts to fight hunger in Africa by preserving seeds and boosting research into improved crop varieties.
FEATURE | 22 May 2007 | EN
From UN conventions to African farms
Ebenezer Bifubyeka asks African delegates at the Convention on Biological Diversity what they plan to do to spread awareness of the uses and risks of GM farming.
FEATURE | 31 March 2006 | EN
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Just add water
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