Even in sub-Saharan Africa's most progressive nations, agbiotech partnerships are still often poorly oriented to end users, fragmented in scope and of limited impact in achieving the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals.
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The work reported in this paper was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Science in Society Programme (Award Reference No: RES-151-25-0002) and The Open University. The authors gratefully acknowledge this support and that of the ESRC Innogen Centre.
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Ayele, S., Chataway, J. & Wield, D. Partnerships in African crop biotech. Nat Biotechnol 24, 619–621 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0606-619
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