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A group of villagers at Sororo, Ejere District, Oromia, stand in the intense, mid-morning glare of highland Ethiopia and speak to visitors about their experiences with the improved maize varieties they had received from Demissew Abakemal, maize breeder with the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR).

As Kenya government prepares to debate a policy that would mainstream and regulate the practice of traditional medicine in the country, traditional healers however are showing dissatisfaction with the proposed Bill and policy

California-based Arcadia Biosciences, Inc., an agricultural technology company focused on products that benefit the environment and human health, and the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), a not-for-profit organization focused on the access and delivery of new agricultural technologies for African smallholder farmers, have announced an agreement in which Arcadia will perform technology development activities for Nitrogen Use Efficient and Salt-Tolerant African rice.

Molecular biologists now want the use of genetic engineering technologies to come up with genetically modified mosquito which they want  to be released to replace the wild species as part of the strategy to the eradication of malaria. This unfolded at the 5th MIM Pan-African conference on malaria taking place in Nairobi, Kenya.

Worried about the fading interest in traditional foods, the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture is partnering with a local restaurant in a two-day festival designed to popularize the Kenya’s cultural foods among urban dwellers.