Policy, investment, and partnerships for agricultural biotechnology research in Africa: Emerging evidence

David Spielman and Patricia Zambrano

Chapter 7 in Genetically modified crops in Africa: Economic and policy lessons from countries south of the Sahara, 2013, pp 183-205 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Progress in agbiotech and GE crop research, development, and dissemination in Africa is constrained by insufficient investment in—and regulatory imped¬iments to—the approval and release of new GE products. The two stud¬ies on agricultural research in developing countries examined in this chapter offer several critical findings about this progress. First, agbiotech and GE crop research is advancing slowly, although there are some signs that new crops, traits, and technologies are in the pipeline for Africa. Second, although some progress has been made in terms of introducing biosafety regulation in many African countries, movement through regulatory processes is inadequate rela¬tive to the opportunities offered by the new technologies. Third, critical assets and competencies from the private sector are not being adequately brought to bear on the research challenge and are not in close collaboration with pub¬lic research.

Keywords: Africa south of Sahara; Africa; biotechnology; Transgenic plants; Risk assessment; Economic aspects; Biosafety regulations; Biotechnological safety; socioeconomic development; Genetically engineered organisms; Genetically modified foods; Data collection; genetic heterogeneity; ex-ante impact assessment; Ex-post impact assessment; Developing countries; bt cotton; maize; banana; Agricultural research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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