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| AATF in the News |
- New technology for small-scale farmers, Daily Nation
14 August 2008
Amid panic over food crisis all over Africa, an initiative in four countries including Kenya is seeking to develop a drought-tolerant maize variety expected to increase the yield of the popular crop.
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- Firm to develop maize that resists drought, Daily Nation, Page 2
20 March 2008
Crop failure in Kenya and other parts of Africa will soon be a thing of the past following the launch of an ambitious programme to develop a drought-resistant maize variety.
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- Government holds meet on agricultural bio-tech, Daily Monitor, p 33
14 December 2007
The Ugandan National Council for Science and Technology will today launch an open forum on Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa (OFAB). The Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCT) Executive Secretary Arthur Makara said Ofab Uganda Chapter is designed to bring together stakeholders in biotechnology and enable interactions between scientists, journalists, the civil society, industrialists, lawmakers and policy makers.
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- Why Africa lags in intellectual property rights, Sunday Standard, p 8
15 July 2007
The past few years have seen increased attention to the strengthening of patents and intellectual property rights (IPRs) in biotechnology related inventions. The number of countries that grant such rights has grown, the types of inventions that can be protected have expanded, and the scope of protection offered by IPR systems in different countries has broadened as well. Mr Richard Boadi, a legal counsel and technology policy expert with the Nairobi-based African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) says that an important policy question that arises is whether IPRs can stimulate innovation in developing countries as they do in developed ones with access to financial, legal and scientific resources and infrastructure to buttress an elaborate innovation culture.
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- Biosciences centre unveiled, The Sunday Standard, p 8
06 May 2007
An initiative to promote scientific excellence and employ modern biotechnology to improve agriculture in Eastern and Central Afica has been unveiled. The initiative, Biosciences east and central Africa (BecA), is being established under the comprehensive African Development Partnership for African Development (NEPAD).
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- Towards a functional biosafety regulatory system in Kenya, Daily Nation, p 28
23 July 2007
The recent move to publish the Biosafety Bill, 2007 will go down in the history of science and technology in Kenya as an important milestone in the long journey that this country has traveled in the quest to have a functional and protective regulatory oversight system for exploitation of genetic modification (GM) technology.
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- Fighting the Striga weed. The EastAfrican, p VI (magazine)
15-21 August 2005
The launch of a new technology to combat the parasitic weed has raised hopes of ensuring food security for over 100 million people in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- New technology by KARI may end Sh800m maize losses for farmers. Daily Nation, p 8
12 July 2005
After losing up to Sh800 million annually for 10 years, maize farmers have reason to smile following the launch of a new technology to control a devastating parasitic weed know as Striga. Ever growing poverty indices coupled with dwindling food security has been a nightmare for maize farmers since 1936, when problems caused by the weed came to the forefront, amidst massive yield losses of between 30 and 100 percent.
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