A tweak to help potatoes withstand late blight disease
Serah Kwapo has had a nightmare for the 30 years she has been growing potatoes—that an infestation of late blight disease could wipe out...
AATF Opened my Horizon to be a Top Biosafety Expert
Former Director General of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr Rufus Ebegba, has said that his position as Nigeria’s chief biosafety regulator was...
AATF partners ECOWAS to improve agricultural productivity
Low agricultural productivity, food and nutritional insecurity and availing smallholder farmers access to life-changing technologies are issues that AATF and ECOWAS have agreed to...
Biosafety: Nigeria will resist any action capable of derailing ongoing progress
Dr Agnes Asagbra, Director-General of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) has said that the Agency will resist any attempt to derail Nigeria’s...
AATF restates commitment to improvement of farmers livelihood
Nigeria is now a reference point in areas of biotechnology products in Africa and we must continue to scale up production of this technology to make it available to farmers.
AATF moves to sustain gains of PBR Cowpea
The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) has concluded arrangements to sustain the gain of Nigeria’s first genetically modified crop variety, the Pod Borer Resistant cowpea with a second gene.
UNDP’s Climate Smart Agriculture project spurs food production and resilience to climate shocks
Humanity is waging war on nature. Nature always strikes back – and it is already doing so with growing force and anger. This is evident...
40,000 young Nigerians to benefit from Young Africa Works – IITA project
In May this year, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) partnered with the Mastercard Foundation to start the Young Africa Works-IITA Project, an...
African countries advised against overregulating New Plant Breeding Techniques
Dr. Emmanuel Okogbenin, Director, Programme Development and Commercialization at the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) has called on African leaders to resist the temptation...
Q&A: How to make agriculture a viable business
by Baraka Rateng’
The African Development Bank aims to boost agricultural productivity by helping scale up proven technologies. Its flagship programme, Technologies for...
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