In 2008 Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa and one of the poorest countries
in the world, became the third country in sub-Saharan Africa to commercially grow a …

Debates about biotechnology continue to be polarized despite its potential to improve the
living standards of the poor in Sub‐Saharan Africa. In the backdrop of this polarized …

This paper sheds some light on the behavior and effect of advocacy coalitions and policy
brokers in a quest to manage collective action problems in Kenya's biosafety policy process …

The evolution of varietal creation methods led in 2012 to the advent of the genome editing
technique, CRISPR-CaS9. This technique would make it possible to create new varieties …

Genetically modified (GM) crops in Kenya are situated in a highly networked and
transnational environment, where technical decisions are tied to livelihoods, politics and …

In many countries in Africa, the twin processes of modern biotechnology transfer and
development of a regulatory regime have co-evolved. This provides a rich context in which …

The biotechnology sector attracts a wide range of interested actors with some getting
entangled in the development of requisite regulatory systems as experts in the virtue of …

Abstract Executive SummaryBackground–The existing body of work on innovation policy
seemed to have failed to adequately address the role of intellectual property in innovation …

Agro-biotechnology deployment has been very slow in Africa, yet it has potential for
enhancing sustainable development and industrialization. This paper attempts to …

This chapter provides an overview of the leading players in Kenya's agriculture sector who
are also pivotal in the implementation of the aid-funded activities of the sector. Having …