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March 4, 2024


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


December 18, 2023


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


November 6, 2023


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


August 4, 2023


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


June 15, 2023


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


April 14, 2023


What the court injunctions mean for biotech progress in Kenya


December 12, 2022


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


December 5, 2022


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


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


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


October 5, 2022


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


September 22, 2022


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


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


August 15, 2022


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


June 6, 2022


Lesson for Africa on risks and rewards of regulating gene editing


April 11, 2022


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


March 25, 2022


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


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


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


January 24, 2022


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


November 23, 2021


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


November 15, 2021


Frustration grows over Ghana’s delay in approving GM cowpea


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


October 27, 2021


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


October 25, 2021


Nigeria - The Plants Varieties Protection Act 2021 (Guardian)


October 20, 2021


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


October 14, 2021


New APBREBES study “Searching for flexibility - Why parties to the 1978 Act of the UPOV Convention have not acceded to the 1991 Act” explores the debates around plant variety protection in nine countries that are parties to UPOV 78


October 8, 2021


Uganda edges toward accepting biotechnology as climate challenges mount


October 5, 2021


Searching for flexibility - Why parties to the 1978 Act of the UPOV Convention have not acceded to the 1991 Act


October 4, 2021


Counterfeit seed keeps Ugandan farmers poor (Daily Monitor)


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