http://www.scidev.net/ Latest news on agri-biotech in africa and the developing world. en http://rss.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/news/ East Africa must adopt alternative farming techniques to combat the crop losses projected for 2050, a study says.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/food-security-in-east-africa-within-reach--1.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaFri, 13 Nov 2009 03:11:35 GMTSix experts, writing in The New York Times, discuss options for ensuring food security in the face of growing populations and climate change.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/can-gm-food-mitigate-world-hunger-.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaWed, 28 Oct 2009 05:06:53 GMTAgainst expectations, West African rice varieties have interbred in the field — and war may have helped these improved hybrids spread.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/war-may-have-spread-hybrid-rice.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaTue, 27 Oct 2009 03:20:46 GMTPests, disease and post-harvest problems are drastically reducing crop yields, a summit has heard, and quick technical fixes are a priority.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/technical-fixes-needed-to-stem-crop-losses.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaFri, 23 Oct 2009 03:57:29 GMTScientists and farmers from Peru and Ethiopia will defend agrobiodiversity through the exchange of scientific and traditional knowledge.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/peru-and-ethiopia-team-up-to-defend-biodiversity.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaFri, 16 Oct 2009 03:30:34 GMTThe African Biosafety Network of Expertise can now begin building African countries' biosafety knowhow in earnest.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/grant-bolsters-african-biosafety-capacity.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaThu, 15 Oct 2009 03:23:14 GMTSouth African researchers will soon begin field trials of a variety of maize capable of withstanding extreme dehydration.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/drought-hardy-maize-ready-for-field-trials-1.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaTue, 06 Oct 2009 06:00:00 GMTCGIAR reforms take research decisions too far away, says Hartmann, director-general of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/cgiar-reforms-make-research-decision-making-distant.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaTue, 06 Oct 2009 02:28:36 GMTA cassava virus rampant in southern Africa could be facing annihilation, thanks to genetic research in South Africa.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/cassava-virus-dealt-a-blow-in-southern-africa.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaThu, 01 Oct 2009 12:09:41 GMTCo-planting an acacia variety with crops delivers timely natural fertiliser as well as cutting erosion and supplying wood for domestic use.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/acacia-tree-can-boost-crops-and-more-across-africa.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaThu, 27 Aug 2009 01:19:02 GMTMoves to introduce biotechnology to Africa must consider the needs and values of local people, argues socioeconomist Wilhemina Quaye.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/local-engagement-key-to-bringing-biotech-to-africa.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaWed, 19 Aug 2009 08:00:00 GMTSoybean farmers in Central and West Africa will soon have a variety resistant to an Asian fungal rust that can devastate their crops.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/nigeria-to-roll-out-fungus-resistant-soybean-crops.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaTue, 11 Aug 2009 11:05:59 GMTSwarms of red locusts in Tanzania have been destroyed by the application of a biopesticide containing fungal spores.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/fungal-pesticide-saves-crops-from-locusts.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaMon, 27 Jul 2009 02:43:49 GMTStudies in maize show that benign strains of the fungus Aspergillus can outcompete toxic forms that contaminate African crops.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/field-trials-offer-hope-of-conquering-food-toxin.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaFri, 26 Jun 2009 03:35:52 GMTA layered and cooperative approach would help Southern African countries harmonise their biosafety laws, says Julius Mugwagwa.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/a-layered-approach-to-biosafety-in-southern-africa.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaWed, 17 Jun 2009 09:38:48 GMTUnproven and patented GM fixes will not help farmers in the South adapt to climate change, say Kathy Jo Wetter and Hope Shand.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/gm-crops-and-the-gene-giants-bad-news-for-farmers.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaWed, 15 Apr 2009 08:00:00 GMTDeveloping world farmers are leading the way in the adoption of genetically modified crops.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/is-gm-shedding-its-frankenstein-image-.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaFri, 20 Mar 2009 03:30:30 GMTWest African researchers are working with farmers to develop rice that will thrive on their iron-rich soils.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/west-africans-hope-to-produce-iron-tolerant-rice-.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaWed, 18 Mar 2009 05:01:55 GMTA project to genetically engineer cassava to provide a day's nutrition in one meal has progressed with the approval of initial field trials.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/-super-cassava-to-enter-field-trials.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaThu, 19 Feb 2009 02:20:00 GMTKenya has become the fourth African country to allow genetically modified farming after the president signed off on new biosafety legislation.http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/agri-biotech-in-africa/kenya-approves-gm-after-years-of-delays.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment_agribiotechinafricaWed, 18 Feb 2009 04:20:01 GMT http://www.scidev.net/images/logo_small.gif http://www.scidev.net/