PMID: 16619740Apr 20, 2006Paper

Can biotechnology help meet the nutrition challenge in sub-Saharan Africa?

Food and Nutrition Bulletin
Julia Tagwireyi

Abstract

The successful efforts in the 1980s to redress nutrition problems in sub-Saharan Africa are being eroded. Countries in eastern and southern Africa are now facing serious food shortages because of recurrent droughts, floods, civil wars, and the concomitant growing poverty. The potential for biotechnology to alleviate hunger holds promise if the new technology can be adapted to the prevailing sociocultural context in Africa. Agronomists and biotechnologists need to work together to ensure that the biotechnology agenda for Africa is responsive to the food and nutrition needs of its people.

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