OFAB Annual Meeting in Tanzania Discuss Strategic Activities

Representatives of the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) network in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda as well as potential members from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe met in Dar es Salaam from May 8-10, 2013 to discuss existing and future activities. The activity was organized by the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) in collaboration with OFAB Tanzania.

OFAB's mission is to enhance knowledge sharing and awareness on modern agricultural biotechnology. The Forum aims to significantly contribute towards building an enabling knowledge, policy and regulatory environment for informed and timely decision making on research, development and deployment of products of modern agricultural biotech for food security in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Focus of the meeting was to shape the strategic activities and action plans that would enable the platform to achieve its mandate of creating an enabling environment for modern biotech uptake in Aftica. Experts from the U.S. and Philippines were also invited to share experiences on knowledge sharing initiatives in Asia, and on how to respond to the anti-biotech movement that is expected to increase activities within the next few years.

For more information, email Daniel Otunge, OFAB Coordinator, at d.otunge@aatf-africa.org.