Why Africa needs agricultural biotech

Florence Wambugu ()
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Florence Wambugu: director of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA AfriCenter), Regional African Office

Nature, 1999, vol. 400, issue 6739, 15-16

Abstract: There is urgent need for the development and use of agricultural biotechnology in Africa to help to counter famine, environmental degradation and poverty. Africa must enthusiastically join the biotechnology revolution.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/21771

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