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Developing countries top in growth of GM crops, says report
By DENNIS ODUNGA
Posted Thursday, March 14 2013 at 19:59
In Summary
“Adoption of biotech crops in developing countries has built up steadily over the years, surpassing industrial countries in 2012, a milestone once thought impossible by some,” author of the annual report, who is also the chairperson and founder of ISAAA, Clive James said.
Although the report says the increased acreage has improved food security and significantly reduced poverty in some of the world’s most vulnerable regions, Kenya has banned importation of genetically modified crops following a study that linked them to cancer.
New push to prosecute GMO importers after Cabinet ban
By EDWIN MUTAI
Posted Thursday, November 22 2012 at 21:15
In Summary
By DENNIS ODUNGA
Posted Thursday, March 14 2013 at 19:59
In Summary
- Of the 28 countries that planted genetically modified crops last year, 20 were developing and eight industrial countries, compared to 19 developing and 10 industrial countries in 2011.
- The report indicated that developing nations planted 52 per cent of the crops in 2012, up from 50 per cent a year earlier and above the 48 per cent industrial countries grew last yea
“Adoption of biotech crops in developing countries has built up steadily over the years, surpassing industrial countries in 2012, a milestone once thought impossible by some,” author of the annual report, who is also the chairperson and founder of ISAAA, Clive James said.
Although the report says the increased acreage has improved food security and significantly reduced poverty in some of the world’s most vulnerable regions, Kenya has banned importation of genetically modified crops following a study that linked them to cancer.
New push to prosecute GMO importers after Cabinet ban
By EDWIN MUTAI
Posted Thursday, November 22 2012 at 21:15
In Summary
- Parliament’s Agriculture Committee chairman John Mututho said manufacturers, importers and distributors of GM foods should be prosecuted because the commodities were banned by the Cabinet two weeks ago.
- Mr Mututho said he had information that 280,000 metric tonnes of maize (approximately four million bags) was in circulation in the country.
- He also claimed that the committee was aware that GMO seeds has been distributed to poor farmers throughout the country and may have been planted during the last season or the next.