Commentary
Nature 400, 15-16 (1 July 1999) | doi:10.1038/21771
Why Africa needs agricultural biotech
Florence Wambugu1
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Florence Wambugu is director of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA AfriCenter), Regional African Office, PO Box 25171, Nairobi, Kenya.
e-mail: Email: f.wambugu@cgiar.org
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Abstract
There is urgent need for the development and use of agricultural biotechnology in Africa to help to counter famine, environmental degradation and poverty. Africa must enthusiastically join the biotechnology revolution.
