Author: J. Muthie

Experts show how biotechnology is key to food, nutrition and financial security in Africa

[Nairobi, September 28, 2022]:  Africa needs the right policy environment to harness and optimise benefits accruing from agricultural biotechnology, innovation and emerging technologies for rural economic transformation, AATF Executive Director Dr. Canisius Kanangire, has said. Addressing the 7th Calestous Juma Executive Dialogue (CJED) forum on Nutrition and Food Security held in Nairobi, Kenya, Dr. Kanangire […]

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AATF gets grant to monitor PBR cowpea

[ABUJA: September 5, 2022] The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research has awarded AATF a grant of 250,000 Australian dollars for the dissemination and monitoring of the pod-borer resistant (PBR) cowpea variety in Nigeria. The variety, Sampea 20-T, was developed and released to overcome a major yield limitation in cowpea in Nigeria, Ghana and Burkina […]

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AATF urges extension agents to help farmers boost productivity

(ABUJA, September 8, 2022) AATF’s Regional Representative for West Africa, Dr Jean Baptiste Tignegre, has challenged extension agents to help farmers to harness technologies and best agronomic practices to improve productivity and end hunger. Opening the North-Central Sensitisation Programme for Farmers and Extension Agents on Biotechnology in Abuja, Nigeria, Dr Tignegre said new technologies and […]

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DEADLINE EXTENSION! Legal and Tax Review of Ownership Transition QualiBasic Seed Company (QBS)

1.0 Background Information AATF The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) is a not-for-profit organisation that embraces a mission of making available, to smallholder farmers, agricultural technologies that were previously not accessible to them. AATF facilitates public-private partnerships and works in 23 African countries with the governments, private and public technology owners and developers, seed companies, […]

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Africa’s biotechnology heroes celebrated on OFAB Day in Accra, Ghana

September 28, 2022 The Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) has honoured Africans who have contributed to the accelerated development of biotechnology to increase agricultural productivity in the continent. OFAB, a project of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), awarded the nominees during a ceremony to mark the 2nd OFAB Day, an annual event held […]

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PBR Cowpea project gets new Manager

[Abuja, Nigeria: August 4, 2022] AATF has announced the appointment of Dr Jean Baptiste De La Salle Tignegre as the new manager of the Pod Borer Resistant Cowpea (PBR) project being implemented in Nigeria, Ghana, and Burkina Faso. Jean Baptiste, a Burkinabé, joined AATF on August 1, 2022, from the World Vegetable Centre, Mali Office, […]

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Agridrive Nigeria Limited: Business Turnaround Consultancy

1.    Background The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) is a not-for-profit organisation that facilitates public/private partnerships to promote food security and enhance the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa South of the Sahara. AATF works with African governments, private and public technology owners and developers, seed companies, other value chain players and African farmers to […]

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