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Below you’ll find that AGRA has released a new report on the status of agriculture in Africa – the full report is also online. In other news, Euractiv reports that African opposition to GM crops is ‘a farce.’
Future Agricultures offers an interesting bulletin with numerous articles on Brazilian and Chinese work in Africa.
In slightly surprising news, plants that are caressed may be more resistant to some diseases, according to scientists at Fribourg University in Switzerland.
B4FA’s Media Fellows have published a bumper crop of articles, videos and sound stories this week covering everything from coffee in Tanzania to sweet potato in Uganda.
Please read on for even more interesting articles from this week! As always, we welcome your feedback at [email protected] or [email protected].
Featured video: Rabi Mohammed, Nigeria
This week our featured video is an interview with Rabi Mohammed, a B4FA Media Fellow, broadcast journalist and farmer from Nigeria. She explains the situation for many women farmers in Nigeria and how she hopes to make an impact.
Biosciences and Plant Genetics
Report on status of agriculture in Africa has been unveiled
SciDev.net
GM crops: African opposition is a farce, says group led by Kofi Annan
EurActiv
Africa Asked to Increase Agric Research Personnel
AllAfrica.com
AUDIO: Curse of the Frankenfoods – interview with Mark Lynas
Abc.net.au
New eBook, Can We Feed the World? The Future of Food
Scientific American
China and Brazil in African Agriculture
Future Agricultures
Plant-Based ‘Beyond Eggs’ Use No Corn Or Soy To Mimic Egg; Backer Bill Gates ‘Can’t Tell The Difference’
Medical Daily
Prince Charles should caress plants as well as talk to them, say scientists
Telegraph
Ghana
Ghana, Uganda research into GM crops
GhanaWeb, by B4FA Media Fellow Samuel Boadi
Ghana text message trial offers farmers market data
SciDev.net, by B4FA Media Fellow Samuel Hinneh
VIDEO: How to reduce post harvest losses in NR Ghana
By B4FA Media Fellow Noah Nash
Africa Should Adopt Genetically Modified Crops—Scientists Advocate
Modern Ghana, by B4FA Media Fellow Mark Boye
Cassava Brown Streak Disease: Identification A Problem Among African Farmers
Modern Ghana, by B4FA Media Fellow Samuel Hinneh
Nigeria
Agric research needs a boost in Nigeria
Daily Trust, by B4FA Media Fellow Ojoma Akor
Tanzania
TaCRI kwa jinsi hii kahawa itaongezeka (Swahili – ‘TaCRI – coffee will increase in this way’)
Changamoto, by B4FA Media Fellow Samson Kamalamo
Machungu matumaini ya wakulima wa kahawa (Swahili – ‘Bitter coffee growers hope’)
Changamoto, by B4FA Media Fellow Said Mmanga
Tanzania yaongoza tafiti zao la kahawa (Swahili – ‘Tanzania does well in coffee research’)
Tanzania yavunja recodi ya kisayansi zao la kahawa duniani (Tanzania has striking record in research for coffee farming’)
Mwananchi Newspaper, by B4FA Media Fellow Leon Bahati
Coffee may pass tobacco in gains
The Citizen, by B4FA Media Fellow Victor Karega
AUDIO: Kilimo cha Kakao (Cocoa) Wilayani Kyela (Swahili – ‘Cultivation of Cocoa, Kyela district’)
AUDIO: Coffee farming and hybrid seeds
Kyela FM, by Lucas Kulwa
Uganda
AUDIO: Ugandan biotechnology requires trust in local scientists- interview with biotech expert
UBC, by B4FA Media Fellow Richard Katami Bwayo
AUDIO: Root crops – detecting illness crucial
UBC, by B4FA Media Fellow Sarah Natoolo
AUDIO: Uganda’s Serere Research Institute to begin Molecular Biotech
UBC, by B4FA Media Fellow Sarah Mawerere
AUDIO: Conservationists government to include clauses on restrictions in the Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill – Interview with Executive director of Pro-Biodiversity Conservationists in Uganda (PROBICOU): Part 1 (Interview); Part 2 (Objective of bill)
Radio Sapientia, by Paschal B. Bagonza
Abadaaki bazze okudduukirira abalimi(Story: Netherlands government to support farmers to get modernized seeds for higher yields)
Bukkede, by B4FA Media Fellow Edward Sserinnya
