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Monsanto: More testing will follow GM maize release in SA

The new drought-tolerant maize trait, MON 87460, has been approved by the Executive Council of the GMO Act for conditional general release in the Republic...

Outrage greets Mosanto GM maize deal in South Africa

Non-governmental and farmer organisations from South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, Kenya and Uganda have condemned the go-ahead given by the South African GMO authorities for Monsanto...

Civil society, farmers oppose US human trials of Uganda-bound ‘super banana’

The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a Pan African platform comprising civil society networks and farmer organisations working towards food sovereignty in...

‘Africa can feed Africa without GMOs’

Experts at the Africa Climate Change conference in Marrakech, Morocco have restated Africa’s capacity to feed itself now and in the future without genetically...

‘How GM foods advocates promote poverty, dependency in Africa’

The recent article, GM scaremongering in Africa is disarming the fight against poverty, published in the Guardian’s PovertyMatters Blog on 21 July 2014, is...

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Nigerian youth wins prestigious Young Superhero for Earth Award

A Nigerian youth, Oluwaseyi Moejoh, has been decorated with the 2024 Young Superhero for Earth Award by the Captain...
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Lagos opens amnesty window on planning permit for completed buildings

The Lagos State Government has opened an amnesty window on Planning Permit, in the form of a three-month moratorium...

Climate action in Nigeria universities as a sustainability strategy

One odd afternoon, slightly cloudy and breezy just after our vertebrate biology class on birds, we were invited to...

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Nigerian youth wins prestigious Young Superhero for Earth Award

A Nigerian youth, Oluwaseyi Moejoh, has been decorated with...

Lagos opens amnesty window on planning permit for completed buildings

The Lagos State Government has opened an amnesty window...
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