Biotech innovators recognized
Some of Uganda's most outstanding innovators and promoters of biotechnology have been recognized for what was described as laying the ...
Tag: AATF
Africa’s new development ‘trigger’ unwrapped
In 2006, Narcis Tumushabe through a private company known as Commercial Farms of Uganda, received a request to supply some ...
For Ethiopia, industrialisation starts with the right seeds
If there's any meaning to the term leap-frogging development, events in Ethiopia best capture the speed with which the country ...
Uganda to benefit from UGX95bn Bill Gates cash
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded US$24.6m (Approximately UGX95bn) to the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) to support ...
What will happen to Uganda if we start to grow GM crops?
One of the reasons why the U.S. and China are on top of the world is because they boldly venture ...
Uganda parliament finally passes biotech law
The long-awaited law on Biotechnology has been enacted by the Parliament of Uganda. The Biosafety Bill 2017, previously known as ...
The Sunrise scoops another award
Another gong has been added to The Sunrise's collection of awards and cemented the paper's standing in the development communication ...
War on Striga ‘witchweed’ gets new ammunition
Science has once again come to the rescue. After several years of battling the destructive effect of the invasive Striga ...
Seed shortage; a hidden crisis limiting Uganda’s prosperity
The ongoing rains in most parts of the country will likely go without being optimally used because farmers are ...
Experts speak out on pesticide-resistant armyworms
Ugandan maize trial proves successful in controlling the armyworm but farmers cannot yet access the variety due to regulatory roadblocks ...
