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Climate-smart oil palm initiative to boost NDCs, SDGs in Africa, Asia

The National Initiatives for Sustainable and Climate-smart Oil Palm Smallholders (NISCOPS) has been launched by Solidaridad in Accra, Ghana. NISCOPS is a five-year strategic programme aimed...

admin - January 20, 2020

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How World Bank intervention is propelling Nigeria for sustainable agriculture

In the 1960s, Nigeria was at a vantage position regarded as an agro-economic country which later changed to a mono economic-based country with total dependence on...

admin - January 14, 2020

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8m farmers to benefit from NIRSAL’s geo-clusters scheme

The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) says eight million farmers will benefit from its 16,000 Geo-Clusters Scheme across the country. Mr Aliyu Abdulhameed,...

admin - January 12, 2020

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How govt approved GM cotton, beans for commercialisation – NABDA

The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) says the Federal Government has approved two modern biotechnology crops – BT cotton and cowpea (beans) for commercialisation in the country. Dr...

admin - January 10, 2020

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GMOs: Stakeholders call for dialogue, labeling to create awareness

The need to boost food production for Nigeria be self-sufficient and improve its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) cannot be over emphasised. The country has been facing some...

admin - January 8, 2020

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Govt-approved GMOs are safe, says biosafety agency

The Director-General, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr Rufus Ebegba, has urged Nigerians to trust the Federal Government’s adoption of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) that have...

Michael Simire - December 20, 2019

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Nigerians to be force-fed with GM beans – Nnimmo Bassey

The commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) beans has been celebrated by the purveyors and promoters of the artificial variety. The Pod Borer-Resistant Cowpea (PBR-Cowpea) also known...

Michael Simire - December 18, 2019

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Sri Lanka to experiment genetically altered breed of mosquito to combat dengue

Sri Lankan president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has said the country will experiment with an imported genetically altered breed of mosquito designed to make female dengue...

Michael Simire - December 17, 2019

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