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Biosafe Train. Capacity building for biosafety and ecological impact assessment of transgenic plants in East Africa
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| Name (native language): | Kapacitetsopbygning: Biosikkerhed og økologisk konsekvensvurdering af transgene planter i det østlige Afrika |
| Coordinating organisation: | Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences |
| Description: | Food security is a major concern in Africa, and there is an urgent need for tools to increase crop production on this continent. Gene technology may be one of the many tools that may be used. However, one of the main obstacles to adaption of this technology, vividly demonstrated recently by the genetically modified (GM)-maize food aid crisis in southern Africa, is the lack of capacity to assess the agricultural and ecological impacts of introducing GM crops. There is, therefore, need for capacity building within the field of risk assessment/risk analysis. The long-term vision of the project is to build up capacity to cope with the challenges of introducing genetically modified crops in East Africa by developing a platform for capacity building on biosafety impact assessment of transgenic plants. |
| Budget (in &euro): | 1100000 |
| Internet: | Projects Link |
| Start: | 2004-01-01 |
| End: | 2007-12-31 |
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| ARD-theme: | plant genetic resources plant breeding |
| Target country: | Kenya Tanzania Uganda |
| Activity: | training research institution building |
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| Donor organisations: | 1 |
| Participating organisations: | 6 |
| Programmes funding: | 1 |
| Last editing: | 2006-08-06 00:06:52 |