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Nigeria’s first transgenic food crop goes commercial

The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved registration and release of a new Pod Borer Resistant (PBR) Cowpea variety for commercialisation. The approval was granted by...
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Worry as South Africa approves GM maize varieties for release

The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) is extremely alarmed to learn that three genetically modified maize varieties developed by Corteva (new name of the Dow-DuPont merged...
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Biosafety agency asked to revoke permits granted controversial genetically modified maize

The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has called on the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) to revoke the permits granted for the water efficient maize...
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RSPO certification not solution to climate crisis, say campaigners

Friends of the Earth Africa (FoEA) participants attending a two-day strategy meeting on Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and industrial Plantation expansion in Lome, Togo...
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EU bans harmful pesticide chlorpyrifos

European Union (EU) member states decided on Friday, December 6, 2019 to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide deemed harmful to human health. The ban is due to take...
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Proper biosafety management will boost economic growth, says NBMA boss

The Director General/CEO, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr Rufus Ebegba, has said that that the agency is well equipped to ensure the proper regulation of...
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Drawbacks of emerging extreme GMO variants – Bassey

Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Nnimmo Bassey, in a presentation at a Media Training on Promoting Nigeria’s Biosafety in Lagos on Tuesday, November 26,...
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Scientists launch research on biological control of papaya mealybug in Kenya

Scientists at the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 launched a research on biological control of papaya mealybug in Kenya. The...
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