Africa needs streamlined regulation supporting deployment of GM crops Howard
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Future food security in Sub-Saharan Africa requires enhancement of its crop production. Transgenic crops with a poverty focus can enhance harvests and are available for staples such as cooking bananas and plantains. One constraint is optimisation of national biosafety processes to support rapid and safe uptake of such beneficial crops. Africa needs streamlined regulation supporting deployment of GM crops Howard J. Atkinson, Hugh Roderick and Leena Tripathi 5 Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nairobi, Kenya. Future food security in Sub-Saharan Africa requires enhancement of its crop 10 production. Transgenic crops with a poverty focus can enhance harvests and are available for staples such as cooking bananas and plantains. One constraint is optimisation of national biosafety processes to support rapid and safe uptake of such beneficial crops. 15
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