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Harmonisation of seed laws in Africa

17 May 2021

Policy Submission

Seed Laws & Policies

Regional and continental integration under the auspices of the African Continental Seed Harmonisation (ACSH) initiative and the African Continental Free Trade Area (ACfTA)

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Citizens of the world oppose intellectual property over seed, reclaim and restore local food systems and agricultural biodiversity

5 June 2020

Press release

Seed Laws & Policies

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--- Press release --- Johannesburg, 5 June 2020

The GM potato push in Rwanda: With regulatory hurdles in Uganda, is this the industry’s fall back?

3 February 2020

Press release

GMOs/Biosafety in Africa

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To enable the introduction of the first GM crop to be grown in Rwanda – a GM potato variety named ‘Victoria’ – the Rwandan government is fast-tracking the development of a biosafety policy and legal framework.
Civil society is deeply concerned about the potential risks of this GM potato variety, which has been genetically modified through cisgenesis – a process that involves taking three genes from three wild South American potato varieties to confer resistance to late blight.