{"id":3314,"date":"2019-06-25T13:12:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","slug":"kenya-at-risk-of-losing-funding-for-gmo-crops-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/25\/kenya-at-risk-of-losing-funding-for-gmo-crops-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya at risk of losing funding for GMO crops development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Business Daily<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The year 2019 could go\ndown in history as the worst in Kenya\u2019s agriculture sector following serious\ndrought that hit the country. It has subjected thousands of farmers to losses\nand poses a food security challenge to the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya is among\ncountries whose rain-fed agriculture is in turmoil due to drastic changes in\nclimate, and the pain and frustration among farmers continue to rise daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Policy analysts have\nblamed this woeful scenario on the reliance on rain-fed agriculture and Kenya\u2019s\ndilly-dallying in adopting Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World Health\nOrganization describes GMOs as \u201corganisms (that is plants, animals or\nmicroorganisms) in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way\nthat does not occur naturally by mating and\/or natural recombination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It allows selected\nindividual genes to be transferred from one organism into another, also between\nnon-related species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists from the\nKenya Agricultural Livestock Research Organization (Kalro) and the African\nAgricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) have been pioneering research on GMO\nmaize in Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research, which was\ncompleted in 2017, showed that the maize, which has been undergoing confined\nfield trials were drought and insect- resistant. But what sounds like a win for\nfarmers, the public and African scientists may soon become a protracted waste\nof effort that could leave a negative mark on Kenya\u2019s agro-research prominence\nand reputation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/datahub\/Kenya-at-risk-of-losing-funding-for-GMO\/3815418-5164456-guu3enz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Business Daily The year 2019 could go down in history as the worst in Kenya\u2019s agriculture sector following serious drought that hit the country. It has subjected thousands of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}