Partnerships, Key to Biotech Adoption in Africa
May 29, 2009| |
Mark Rosegrant, Director of IFPRI's Environment and Production Technology Division, has called on African countries to build public and private partnerships in adopting agricultural biotechnology development to improve crop yields, household income and nutritional quality of food in an environmentally sustainable way, in a recently-concluded conference on Delivering Agricultural Biotechnology to African Farmers: Linking Economic Research to Decision Making in Entebbe, Uganda.
In a press conference immediately after the opening of the conference, Rosegrant said "Africa should invest in funding scientific expertise in order to improve agricultural biotechnology development, and streamline the process of testing, confined field trials and commercialization." He noted the importance of strengthening regional coordination harmonization by looking at the licensing systems, to reduce bureaucracy and unnecessary delays and duplication.
For more information on the conference and on biotechnology in Uganda, contact Olive Nabukonde at onabukonde@yahoo.com
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