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NAFDAC, NBMA sign MoU on regulation of GMOs

The National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) on Wednesday, November 21, 2017, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Agency for Food and...
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Legislative instrument on dams’ safety now in place in Ghana

Officials of the Water Resources Commission (WRC) have introduced to and discussed with stakeholders in Accra a regulatory instrument passed to govern dams in...
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Anti-grazing law violates herdsmen’s rights, says group

A group, the Billital Moroobe Association of Nigeria (BILPAN), warned on Monday, November 20, 2017 that the anti-grazing law enacted in some states was...
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Government, CGIAR launch new climate change insurance roadmap for farmers

The Federal Government, in collaboration with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), on Monday, November 20, 107 launched an evidence-based insurance development...
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Adamawa pays N20m counterpart fund to scale up FADAMA project

The Adamawa State Government has paid N20 million counterpart fund for the implementation of the FADAMA III Second Additional Financing (AFII) programme to fast-track...
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Agroforestry to propel achievement of Nationally Determined Contributions

A programme on how agroforestry can be part of the solution to climate change has been published in a policy brief by the World...
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Is Uganda ready for GMOs?

Several African countries have experimented with GMOs with limited success, for example Bt cotton in Burkina Faso The Parliament of Uganda recently passed the National Biosafety...
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Africa urged to adopt agric biotech as farmers demand GMO seeds

As the sensitisation on biotechnology as another option for enhancing agricultural productivity gains ground among Ghanaian farmers, scientists are faced with one problem –...
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