A misinformation is going on, saying that Burkina Faso farmers will stop growing Bt cotton. This is not true. Please click here Bt COTTON IN BURKINA FASO for more information.

The ABNE new publication “ABNE in Africa, January 2012” has come out. Please, click here : ABNE in Africa, January 2012.

ABNE – Building Functional Biosafety Systems in Africa

The African Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE) is an Africa-based, Africa-led initiative established by the AU/NEPAD’s Office of Science and Technology. ABNE was conceptualized under NEPAD’s Consolidated Plan of Action and fulfills the recommendation of the High-Level African Panel on Modern Biotechnology…read more…

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    Bt COTTON IN BURKINA FASO

    May 18, 2012

    Last week information was spread that Burkina Faso farmers have decided this year to stop planting Bt cotton. But, reacting to this news, Burkina Faso cotton companies indicate they were very surprised with this information BURKINA FASO ABANDONS Bt COTTON: «We are surprised by the information» Monday, 14 May 2012. Following the news, on Radio [...]

    Study tour programme for African Regulators May 13 – 20, 2012 RSA

    May 13, 2012

    As part of the regulatory capacity building efforts, ABNE organizes annual study tours to promote the sharing of knowledge and experience between regulators from countries with new and emerging biosafety systems on one hand and regulators and industry practitioners in countries that are conducting confined field trials and/or have commercialized biotech crops. Please click here [...]

    Biosafety Initiatives’ Coordination meeting, Uganda, 2012

    May 11, 2012

    Partners and Stakeholders’ Meeting on Biosafety Capacity Development in Africa March 19-20, 2012, Entebbe, Uganda This meeting was organized by the NEPAD Agency African Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE) in collaboration with the IFPRI Program for Biosafety Systems (PBS) and other Biotechnology and Biosafety Stakeholders Since 2009, a number of technical assistance programs with a [...]

    ABNE technical meeting on the Togo Biosafety Law

    May 9, 2012

    (Dr Moussa Savadogo) This meeting was a follow up on the recommendations from the information sharing workshop organized by ABNE in Lomé in June 2011. In addition, the Government of Togo signed the Nagoya Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress in September 2011. Based on these, the Minister for Environment and Forestry Resources [...]