B4FA – The Week in Review

3 September 2013

This week you’ll find an especially robust section from Ugandan B4FA Media Fellows as they report on the Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill which continues to be reviewed.

Likewise in Tanzania the safety of GMOs continues to be discussed, including in an interview with Dr. Joseph Ndunguru, a cassava expert.

In plant science news, Andrew Revkin comments on the Golden Rice Trials in the New York Times, while The Guardian’s Global Development section reviews competition between Brazil and China for agricultural influence in Africa.

And please take a look to the right and visit our recently re-designed web site - and let us know how we’re doing.

Please read on for even more interesting articles from this week!  As always, we welcome your feedback at [email protected].
Biosciences and Plant Genetics

From Lynas to Pollan, Agreement that Golden Rice Trials Should Proceed
New York Times

How African innovation can take on the world – Prof. Calestous Juma
CNN

West African science too reliant on foreign cooperation
SciDev.net

Keeping pace with plant pathogens - Plant immune system research ready for application, say researchers
National Science Foundation (USA)

Brazil and China scramble for agricultural influence in Africa
The Guardian – Global Development

Ghana

Agricultural research in Ghana boosted with ultramodern biotech lab
Joy Online, by B4FA Media Fellow Kofi Adu Domfeh

VIDEO: Genetically Modified Cassava Cultivation in Uganda
By B4FA Media Fellow Noah Nash

Nigeria

Tanzania

Debate on safety of GMOs rages on - Interview with Dr. Joseph Ndunguru
Daily News

Uganda

AUDIO: Maize farmers in Uganda set to benefit from biotechnology and conventional breeding
AUDIO: Interview with cassava farmer on virus resistant cassava
AUDIO: GMOs safe, says senior cassava breeder Dr Titus Alicai 
AUDIO: Agriculturalist: Biotechnology and biosafety bills needs to be passed
Radio Sapientia, by B4FA Media Fellow Paschal B. Bagonza

Uganda needs to adapt GMOs and biotechnology
Daily Monitor, by B4FA Media Fellow Michael J. Ssali

AUDIO: Anti-GMO critics misleading Ugandans with false info- Transcript
AUDIO: Cassava story - Transcript
UBC, by B4FA Media Fellow Sarah Mawerere

Uganda Biosafety and Biotechnology Bill - News bulletinand AUDIO interview with Minister of Agriculture
Richard Katami Bwayo