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Drop in Chinese milk production amid heat stress

There are clear signs that growth in milk production in China is leveling off and, recently, even declining, says a team of Chinese and...

Michael Simire - April 15, 2020

Agric & Biotech

Civil society wants GMOs banned

Hundreds of Nigerians including farmers, CSOs, community persons, lawyers, medical practitioners, students, scientists, youth and women groups led by the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and...

Michael Simire - March 27, 2020

Agric & Biotech

Technofixes and state of Nigeria’s biosafety – Bassey

A time like this demands and permits only sober consideration of where we are coming from, where we are and where we are heading to. The...

Michael Simire - March 23, 2020

Agric & Biotech

How litigation can promote effective biosafety management

Concerned stakeholders who converged on Abuja on Monday, March 23, 2020 at a daylong forum explored the practicality of litigation as an effective tool to promote...

Michael Simire - March 23, 2020

Agric & Biotech

TAAT deploys climate smart technologies to boost sorghum production in the Sahel

Sorghum is the fifth most produced grain globally. This two-metre tall plant from the grass family is often grown in regions that have high temperatures and lower rainfall. In...

Michael Simire - March 22, 2020

Agric & Biotech

Women farmers decry non access to land, call for Land Use Act review

Women farmers under the auspices of Smallholder Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria (SWOFON) have called for review of the Land Use Act to adequately protect their...

Michael Simire - March 20, 2020

Agric & Biotech

NABDA to begin bio-fertiliser production for Nigerian farmers

The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) says it is soon to commence mass production of bio-fertilisers for farmers across the six geo-political zones of...

Michael Simire - March 18, 2020

Agric & Biotech

Why govt should ban GMOs, revoke biosafety agency law, by campaigners

A team of civil society organisation representatives from Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Nigerians against GMOs, Peace and Development Project,...

Michael Simire - March 17, 2020

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