Daily Monitor
Viewpoint: 2,000 Nigerian farmers are reaping benefits from genetically modified Bt cowpea. Other African countries could leverage similar biotechnology tools
A number of African countries have begun to take advantage of agricultural biotechnology to overcome crop production challenges. The last ...
Viewpoint: Uganda’s ‘mistrust of science’ threatens local farming innovation and economic growth
Uganda is merely watching as other countries embrace technologies such as biotechnology that are transforming agriculture and earning them huge ...
GM banana could help Uganda’s farmers battle bacterial wilt, but the country needs a biosafety law first
My attention has been drawn to an article I recently read in the digital Genetic Literacy Project newsletter authored by ...
Uganda’s GMO biosafety bill ensuring ‘no dangers’ likely to pass after embrace of president’s proposed changes
Legislators on the Parliamentary Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation have changed their positions on the GMO Bill and considered ...
Ugandan farmer: Politicians should listen to country’s farmers, give us access to GMO crops
Genetically Modified Organisms, also known as GMOs, remain one of the most hotly debated topics in agriculture both locally and ...
Viewpoint: Anti-science activists beware—Uganda’s president knows GMO crops are good for farmers
We came to learn about a month ago that [Ugandan] President [Yoweri] Museveni had referred the Biotechnology and Bio-safety Bill ...
Blight-resistant GMO potatoes could reduce pesticide use in Uganda
Uganda is steadily progressing towards having a potato that will not require chemical spraying. ... According to Dr Alex Barekye, ...
Ugandan anti-GMO activists applaud President Museveni’s rebuke of bill authorizing GMOs
Civil society activists have backed President Museveni for rejecting to assent to the Biosafety Bill 2017, saying the move saved ...
Uganda ponders gene-edited crops to avoid restrictive GMO regulations
Scientists globally... are engaged in plant breeding using genetic modification methods where a gene from a different plant is identified ...
Uganda promotes new drought tolerant, disease resistant maize varieties
Earlier this year, the Ministry of Agriculture , Animal Industry and Fisheries (Maaif) released four new maize varieties. It was ...
Crop losses due to disease cost Uganda hundreds of millions, biotech could help
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Due to climate change ...
Ugandan biotech students express concern over delay in passing biotechnology bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dear Mr Matia Kasaija, ...
Ugandan scientists develop wilt resistant GMO banana, field trials this year
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Crop scientists at National ...
To streamline commercialiazation, Uganda considering unique system for regulating GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotechnology is one of ...
Uganda progresses in ag biotech research but lags behind in implementation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Kenya is about to ...
East African countries face harsh biosafety restrictions in expanding gene editing research
For scientists across the globe in agricultural value chain to counteract the upcoming challenges likely to be faced by factors ...
What Brazil can teach Uganda about GMO crops
Brazil presents a suitable example to learn from in adoption, processing and export of Genetically Modified (GM) crops and products, ...
USAID, University of California partnering to develop rice strains compatible with challenging African climate, soil
Rice is a staple food in many African countries and constitutes a major part of the diet in many others ...
Why do we trust science but not GMO crops?
Our daily lives are quite used to scientific innovations that we trust and use—mobile phone, radio, television, electricity, and even ...
Uganda’s GMO products ready for release in 2016 with no law yet in place
In this quest for improved varieties with the capacity to give high yields and other desired attributes such as drought ...
Why Africa should embrace crop biotechnology
Uganda passed a Biotechnology and Biosafety Policy in 2008 and later drafted and tabled Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill which is ...
African scientists engineering genetically modified livestock vaccines
Agricultural scientists in different parts of Africa have been engaged in application of biotechnology mainly for developing improved crop varieties ...
Farmer’s diary: The biotech debate and our challenges
The following is an excerpt. You could have read Nassib Mugwanya’s article, Are GMOs really the threat? in Seeds of ...
Ugandan farmer’s diary: The biotech debate and our challenges
The following is an excerpt. The legalisation of biotechnology is not to outlaw organic farming, which is to sustain soil ...
Fears about GMOs among some Ugandans unfounded
The following is an excerpt. GMO is ... one of the options that should be adopted to quicken the process ...
Ugandans need law that bans GMOs, not promotes them
The following is an excerpt. I was compelled to write this article after learning that the government passed the National ...
A Ugandan farmer’s diary: Biotechnology and the future of farming
The following is an excerpt. For years we have been waiting for a law governing the use of biotechnology products, ...
Uganda must beware of GM foods
The government of Uganda is in final stages of introducing Genetically Modified (GM) crops in the country as a quick ...