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November 8, 2024
Kenya - Science wins, again, as High Court dismisses anti-GMO petitions
October 10, 2024
Côte d’Ivoire - Le Ministre de l'Agriculture réaffirme l’engagement de l’État à garantir l’accessibilité de semences de qualité aux producteurs (AIP)
October 1, 2024
New plan launched with G7 to enhance Africa’s participation in the OECD seed certification scheme Avec le G7, l’OCDE engage un nouveau plan pour renforcer la participation africaine à son système de certification des semences
Normes et certification : les semenciers outillés à Lomé (AgriDigitale)
September 16, 2024
South African Cultivar and Technology Agency (SACTA) drives new cultivar development in the seed industry through its breeding and technology levy (Farmer's Weekly)
September 10, 2024
Kenya gives green light to 58 GMO projects despite lawsuits and misinformation
July 29, 2024
Ghana releases pod borer-resistant cowpea, the first genetically modified crop to be developed in the country, for commercial cultivation (My Joy Online)
July 27, 2024
Ghana releases first GMO crop for commercial cultivation (Ghana News Agency)
July 22, 2024
L’Angola s'engage à respecter les protocoles internationaux sur les semences génétiquement modifiées pour renforcer la durabilité agricole (Medi 1 News)
July 16, 2024
Kenya - Enhancing plant variety protection through capacity building
July 15, 2024
Ghana's seed challenges reflect broader national issues, belief systems (Ghana News Agency)
July 8, 2024
Seed regulation is the foundation on which South African agriculture is built (IOL)
June 24, 2024
Sommet sur les semences au Bénin, visant à l'élaboration d'une feuille de route harmonisée pour la transformation du secteur semencier (XinhuaNet)
June 20, 2024
Ghana stands ready to implement plant variety protection (3News)
June 13, 2024
Amended seed regulations aimed at ending hunger (Windhoek Observer)
June 11, 2024
Maroc - Feu vert pour l’importation des semences de pomme de terre américaines (Hespress)
June 5, 2024
Le Maroc autorise l'importation de semences de pommes de terre depuis les USA (Agence Ecofin)
May 31, 2024
Exploring cannabis and hemp cultivation laws in South Africa and beyond (CDH Inc.)
May 28, 2024
13 organizations sign historic agreement to fight illegal seed practices
May 27, 2024
Annual meeting of the UPOV Technical Group on Testing Methods and Techniques (TWM)
Annual meeting of the UPOV technical group on vegetable crops
May 23, 2024
Zambian biotech experts chart the course for genome editing in the country
April 19, 2024
Ghana’s biosafety authority: Granting GMO import permits to be based on regulations, international best practices (EnviroNews Nigeria)
April 12, 2024
National Biosafety Authority says it has not granted approval for the seeds of 14 genetically modified products to be cultivated in Ghana (Ghana News Agency)
April 8, 2024
Approval of more biotech crops shows Ghana is on right path to food security (MyJoyOnline)
March 20, 2024
UPOV updates explanatory note on essentially derived varieties (EDVs) (Morrison Foerster)
March 4, 2024
Costs of inappropriately regulating all seed innovations as GMOs are too high for South Africa (Daily Maverick)
February 7, 2024
Seed Co wins US$1m claim against Credcorp Investments
February 6, 2024
UPOV releases explanatory notes further defining protection for essentially derived varieties (Cooley)
January 24, 2024
Landmark memorandum of understanding aigned between the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) and the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) to enhance plant variety rights
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