Why Africa needs agricultural biotech: There is urgent need for the development and use of agricultural biotechnology in Africa to help to counter famine, environmental degradation and poverty

Article Abstract:

Biotechnology critics claim that African will not benefit from biotechnology, and that it would become a dumping ground or exploited by multinationals. However small scale farmers in Africa have already benefited from tissue-culture technologies for banana, sugar cane, cassava and pyrethrum. It is likely that they would also benefit from crop-protection transgenic techniques. African food production could be doubled if viral diseases were controlled using transgenic technology.

Usage, Africa

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Cuban biotechnology treads a lonely path

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Cuba is said to have invested at leas $1 billion in biotechnology during the past 15 years. Much of the applied research is directed at developing public health therapies. The majority of income comes from a hepatitis B vaccine which is undergoing certification by the World Health Organization (WHO), and a vaccine against meningitis B. The majority of the basic research is carried out by the Centre for Molecular Immunology (CIM), with particular focus on the immune system.

Research, Science and technology policy, Cuba

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