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April 22, 2024
Youth farmer Edelqueen Anyiso’s story of resilience in growing TAAT-promoted drought-tolerant maize varieties
Kenya - Margaret Shitandi: Growing high-yielding hybrid maize varieties has helped me to improve my household income
April 10, 2024
Mastering crisis communication in biotechnology regulation: Insights from the Africa Biosafety Regulators Retreat
March 28, 2024
Reflections: 20 years of improving seed systems in Africa
March 15, 2024
How Kenya’s plant breeding stations are investing in women in science (Farmers Review Africa)
March 13, 2024
Certification des semences exemptes de maladies en Afrique centrale et de l'Ouest: des experts ouvrent un dialogue politique et technique de haut niveau au pôle scientifique de Bingerville de l'Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny d'Abidjan (Abidjan.net)
March 12, 2024
L'association Semencière du Mali (ASSEMA) réclame la subvention des semences de céréales (Bamada.net)
March 11, 2024
Seed technologies key in addressing various constraints of agriculture in Africa
Seed technologies are key to addressing Africa's agricultural problems (Daily Trust)
March 4, 2024
Costs of inappropriately regulating all seed innovations as GMOs are too high for South Africa (Daily Maverick)
University of Ibadan Professor recommend setting up a Plang Breeding Rescue Agenda 2050 for Nigeria (The Guardian)
February 22, 2024
TASAI - Seed Sector Performance Index update to be launched in April 2024
February 16, 2024
Let us partner to increase rice production in Africa by 2030
February 5, 2024
From California to Kenya: The first year of the CRISPR course for African plant scientists
January 26, 2024
CRISPR-edited crops break new ground in Africa - Scientists in the global south use the popular technique to protect local crops against local threats (Nature)
January 18, 2024
Taking diversity out of the genebank and into farmers’ fields in Ghana
December 18, 2023
Scientists call for framework to scale up genome editing adoption in Africa (Ghana News Agency)
December 14, 2023
Algérie - Céréales: l'autosuffisance passe par l'amélioration de la productivité et la diversification des semences (L'Expression)
December 1, 2023
Agrifood sector faces growing threat from climate change-induced loss and damage
November 30, 2023
GB10: Seed sector sees progress on the road to enhancing the multilateral system in 2025
November 22, 2023
Insights from Dr. Mike Barrow’s quest for resilient maize varieties (Farmers Review Africa)
November 7, 2023
Sénégal - Le représentant d'AfricaRice déplore la faible utilisation des semences certifiées (NewsDay)
November 6, 2023
Breeders welcome the adoption of the new Explanatory Notes on Essentially Derived Varieties by the UPOV Council
October 25, 2023
The challenges and opportunities of bringing direct-seeded rice to Asian and African farmers
October 23, 2023
"Let’s embrace the hybrid rice varieties", says African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) Rice Project Manager Kayode Sanni (Nation)
October 3, 2023
Africaseeds raises public awareness on the importance of the inclusive seed sector in Africa (AIP)
September 13, 2023
PBR Cowpea project has made me more diligent — Ghanaian scientist (Tribune)
August 17, 2023
Combining hands-on support for local seed companies with policy advocacy - The case of A3 Seed in South Sudan
August 10, 2023
How can Spanish tomatoes face competition from Morocco and the Netherlands?
August 8, 2023
African scientists call for adoption of technologies to boost agricultural production
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