November 29, 2024

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Registration of farmers' seed varieties is a priority in Africa (The Herald)

July 16, 2024

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Kenya - Enhancing plant variety protection through capacity building

July 8, 2024

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Seed regulation is the foundation on which South African agriculture is built (IOL)

May 31, 2024

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Exploring cannabis and hemp cultivation laws in South Africa and beyond (CDH Inc.)

March 4, 2024

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Costs of inappropriately regulating all seed innovations as GMOs are too high for South Africa (Daily Maverick)

December 18, 2023

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Scientists call for framework to scale up genome editing adoption in Africa (Ghana News Agency)

November 6, 2023

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Breeders welcome the adoption of the new Explanatory Notes on Essentially Derived Varieties by the UPOV Council 

August 4, 2023

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Laws and regulations enabling and restricting Africa’s vegetable seed sector

June 15, 2023

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Tanzania - Proposed legal framework seeks to protect farmer-saved seed varieties (IPP Media)

April 14, 2023

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What the court injunctions mean for biotech progress in Kenya

December 12, 2022

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Nigeria - Seed legislation will enhance sector’s development, says the Director General, National Agricultural Seed Council (Blueprint)

December 5, 2022

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Rwanda is counting on Kenya to ensure that transparent information is shared with neighbouring EAC countries on all genetically modified seeds and food products (The East African)

November 24, 2022

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Phytosanitary regulations ensure viable seed industry - Using science-based processes, the South African National Seed Organisation (SANSOR) monitors global phytosanitary regulations to ensure the effective and continuous movement of seed

October 28, 2022

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Kenya has lifted its ban on genetically modified crops: the risks and opportunities (The Conversation)

October 5, 2022

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South Africa - New plant improvement act and plant breeders’ rights regulations look forward to an age of industrial hemp (Engineering News)

September 22, 2022

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“We will not achieve food security without reaching consensus on Farmers’ Rights and Breeders’ Rights” - Speech by Arthur Santosh Attavar, ISF Vice President, at the Opening Ceremony of the ninth session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture 

August 24, 2022

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How and why gene editing faces fewer global regulations than GMOs (Genetic Literacy Project)

August 15, 2022

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Exploring benefits of Plant Variety Protection system in Nigeria (Blueprint)

June 6, 2022

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Lesson for Africa on risks and rewards of regulating gene editing

April 11, 2022

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The paradox of favourable biotech regulations amid GMO ban in Kenya (Business Daily)

March 25, 2022

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How South Africa is bungling regulation of CRISPR and other gene edited crops — and why consumers will pay the price (Genetic Literacy Project)

March 18, 2022

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Harmonisation des cadres règlementaires des semences en Afrique : Des paysans corrigent la copie de l’Union africaine et la Cedeao (Le Quotidien)

February 16, 2022

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South Africa should rethink regulations on genetically modified plants (The Conversation)

January 24, 2022

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seeds Council warns farmers against buying fake seeds (Daily Trust)

November 23, 2021

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The global GM regulatory landscape and how gene editing fits in it (Part 1)

November 15, 2021

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Frustration grows over Ghana’s delay in approving GM cowpea

Celebrating advent of plants varieties protection law in Nigeria (Vanguard News)

October 27, 2021

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Authorizing GM Crop Varieties: Policy Implications for Seed Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (Agronomy)

October 25, 2021

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Nigeria - The Plants Varieties Protection Act 2021 (Guardian)

October 20, 2021

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Nigeria’s plant variety protection: in line with international intellectual property norms (Managing IP)