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April 2004
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Free
Access to 'Plant Pathology' and 'The Plant Cell' Journals (ASPB)
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Better
Harvests Improve Sub-Saharan Africa's Food Supply (FAO)
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Kenya Seed
Burns Down |
Government
Acts (The Nation/Standard)
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GM
Maize Could Produce Hepatitis B Vaccine (Scidev)
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USDA:
Fellowships for Developing Country Scientists (USDA)
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South Africa: GM
Maize to Keep on Doubling (Reuters)
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Kenya
Seed Company Sales Improve (Daily nation)
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Rockefeller
Foundation to Fund Further Research on Food Crops (Daily Nation)
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Uganda's
Decision on GM Stirs Anxiety among EAC Members (East African
Standard)
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Ban
on GM Food Threatens Hungry Angolans (New York Times)
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Rice
Developers Win World Food Prize (United Press International)
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Zimbabwe:
Parliament Ratifies Plant Genetics Treaty (Zimbabwe Broadcasting
Corporation)
05
April 2004
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Mauritian
Parliament Adopts Bill on GMOs (PANA)
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CIMMYT's
First GM Wheat Field Trials in Mexico (CIMMYT Website)
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Angola:
Government against GM Products (ANGOP)
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Cowpea
Productivity and Utilization Stakeholders' Meeting (AATF)
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GM
Lucerne on the Way (Australian Broadcasting Corp.)
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Chile
Biotechnology Forum Concludes (UNIDO Press Release)
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Mukono Develops
New Orange Varieties (New Vision, Kampala)
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Uganda
Gives Cautious Approval to GM Food (SciDev.Net)
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Manila Rejects GM Maize Health
Findings (Reuters)
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African
Consumers' Body Cautions Senegal over GMOs (Panafrican News Agency)
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Environmentalists
Express Fears of Genetic Contamination (This Day, Lagos)
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Easing
Process of Gene-Altering Seeds (The Chicago Tribune)
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First
Transgenic Animals Created from Genetically Altered Sperm (Food
Chemical News)
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Human
Stem Cells Cloned (Sky News Website)
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Tanzania
Releases her First Cassava Varieties (Nipashe Newspaper)
o Fighting
Fungi with Bacteria (Deccan Herald)
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GM
Technology Fails Local Potatoes (The Daily Nation, Kenya)
22
March 2004
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Angola:
Government against GM Products (ANGOP)
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Cowpea
Productivity and Utilization Stakeholders' Meeting (AATF)
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GM
Lucerne on the Way (Australian Broadcasting Corp.)
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Chile
Biotechnology Forum Concludes (UNIDO Press Release)
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Mukono Develops
New Orange Varieties (New Vision, Kampala)
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Uganda
Gives Cautious Approval to GM Food (SciDev.Net)
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UN
Biosafety Protocol Now Operational (M2 Presswire)
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Breakthrough
Technology Can Substitute DNA Segments (Inside Iowa State)
23
January 2004
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GM corn to be
approved for one year only (The Independent) o
GM Foods in Circulation in Uganda (New Vision) o
World's
1st Genetically Modified 'Kadyos' pigeon pea (The Philippine Star) o
ILTAB
(UK) developing GM cassava resistant to African plant viruses (Louis
Post-Dispatch)
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Global
Status of Commercialized Transgenic Crops in 2003 (ISAAA)
06 December 2003
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Lower-Cost Method for Screening GM Content in Food Products Announced
(Business Wire) o
Tanzanian Parliament Blocks Govt. on GM Seeds (SciDev.Net) o
Asia Launches Biotech Consortium (Nature Biotechnology) o
Experts
Urge African Leaders to Invest in Biotechnology
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ASARECA
Biotechnology and Biosafety Program
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Liberia
holds Biosafety workshop
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Molecular
map for the genome of sorghum published by the Plant Genome Mapping
Laboratory, University of Georgia (Andrew Paterson)
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Table
of Contents of the November 2003 Issue of the African Journal of
Biotechnology
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Norway
Pumps $400,000 into GMO Detection in Zambia (The Times of
Zambia)
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FAO Head
Stresses Water over GMOs for Africa (Reuters) o
Media
Coverage of Agricultural Biotechnology Focuses on Risks Rather Than
Benefits (University of Missouri-Columbia) o
SA
& India to Strengthen Ties in areas of biotechnology, IT and ITK
(Business Day)
10
November 2003
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South
Africa Rejects Liability Plan (ABC) o
New CGIAR "Challenge
Program on Water and Food" o
ICRISAT
Headquarters to Remain in India (SciDev.Net) o
NEPAD
Action Plan for African Science (SciDev.Net)
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UN
Launches International Year of Rice (FAO)
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Nairobi
Centre Chosen to Boost Biosciences in Africa (SciDev.Net)
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CIMMYT
Moves Forward on Transgene Detection Issues (CIMMYT Website) 25
October 2003 o
Online
Scientific Information on Food and Agriculture for Poorest Countries
(FAO Newsroom)
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University
of Minnesota Receives $10.8 Million to Sequence Third Plant Genome
(University of Minnesota)
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New book: Biotechnology
and Sustainable Development: Voices of the South and North (CABI
Publishing) o
Germany
to give US$2.4 million for biosafety laws and regulatory structures for
GMOs in Africa (Scidev.net) o
Sorghum Genome
Research Gets $100 Million from NSF (NSF Press Release)
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October 2003 o
Kenya:
Bill on biosafety coming soon o
Call
for Africa to Accept GM Crops (UN IRIN)
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