Director, African Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE) Professor Diran Makinde, has called on Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan to assent to the National Biosafety Bill before “unscrupulous people take advantage of the situation to cause problems of wider implication for the country’s agricultural biotechnology developments.”
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A new study finds that climate drives a large part of African diarrhoeal disease and increases the threat to vulnerable communities.
Continue reading …New initiative helps African Laboratories leapfrog over technical obstacles
April 13, 2013 No Comment
the African Society of Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) has focused on building capacity in African healthcare laboratories, recognizing that providing efficient and accurate diagnostic services is critical to patient health.
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Researchers at Wits University in South Africa, have found that the ribcage and feet of the Australopithecus sediba discovered in 2008 are not siutable for runing and walking casting doubts on the findings.
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South African officials say they have detected bird flu on an ostrich farm but that it is unrelated to the strain that has killed eight people in China.
Continue reading …Study calls for inclusion of climate change adaptation to food security investments
April 4, 2013 No Comment
West African policy makers should prepare for future challenges from climate change as they address the pressing needs of broad-based economic growth. Maize, millet, rice, and sorghum are the major cereal crops in the region, yet yields from these crops are very low compared to the world average and even other regions in Africa.
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Scientists at two of Nigeria’s leading scientific laboratories are set to boost the federal government afforestation programme by using tissue culture techniques to mass produce drought tolerant tree seedlings for planting in desert endangered states.
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Ugandan pro-biotechnology activists are calling for an expedited legislation to enable access by farmers to crops genetically-modified (GM) against virulent diseases, pests and drought, if the country is to sustain food production and supply next decades.
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A new initiative has been launched to avail African farmers direct access to improved maize, cassava and wheat.
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Attempting to prevent HIV infection via vaginal gels or daily medicine has proven to be ineffective in the southern African region that is devastated by a high number of cases of the disease, because people did not use the medicine as required.
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