Agric & Biotech

Agric & Biotech

App enables smallholder farmers to be community influencers, citizen scientists

The GeoFarmer app allows community workers and smallholders to easily collect and share information on climate-related agricultural interventions. Development agencies can use the tool to gather effective feedback and...
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NBMA collaborates with Abuja media on biosafety awareness

The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) Abuja Council has said it is ready and willing to partner with the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) to create...
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Effective soil management key to national food security, says don

The National President, Soil Science Society of Nigeria, Prof. Victor Chude, has said that any country that failed to adequately care for its soil, risks hunger...
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Monsanto ordered to pay man $80m in weed-killer cancer trial

A court on Thursday, March 28, 2019 ordered Monsanto to pay a U.S. man $80.3 million in damages after a jury determined that the agro-chemical company’s...
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How to tackle irrigation management issues in Africa, by experts

Irrigation specialists from across Africa on Thursday, March 28, 2019 converged on the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan, Oyo State, to discuss irrigation...
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Biosafety agency restates need to regulate emerging technologies

The Director General, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr. Rufus Ebegba, has called for the strict regulation of new and emerging aspects of the application of...
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Group urges govt to dismiss bill seeking to expand scope of biosafety agency

Environmental/ecological think tank and advocacy organisation, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), has called on the House Committee on Environment and Habitat to dismiss the...
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Agric & Biotech

Legislators back biosafety agency

The Chairman, House Committee on Environment and Habitat, Obinna Chidoka, has said that the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) has the full support of the National...
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