Networking among African regulators and policy makers has shown the benefits of cross-country experience sharing. Ghana was able to move straight to multi-location testing of cotton by using data portability from Burkina Faso. In turn, Ghana’s experience with multi-location testing is being shared with other countries through various consultations.
Technical capacities were also strengthened to establish and manage functional biosafety systems for the safe use of modern agricultural biotechnology. Other technical support included national biosafety training workshops, biosafety short courses at African institutions and partner institutions outside Africa, notably at Michigan State University in the USA, biosafety internships, technical consultation support, and biosafety information resources.
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Key Results
Networking among African regulators and policy makers has shown the benefits of cross-country experience sharing. As a result, Ghana was able to move straight to multi-location testing of cotton by using data portability from Burkina Faso. In turn, Ghana’s experience with multi-location testing is being shared with other countries through various consultations
Technical capacities were also strengthened to establish and manage functional biosafety systems for the safe use of modern agricultural biotechnology. Other technical support included national biosafety training workshops, biosafety short courses at African institutions and partner institutions outside Africa, notably at Michigan State University in the USA, biosafety internships, technical consultation support, and biosafety information resources
Ghana also benefited from setting-up of a functioning bio-safety system for field testing of genetically engineered rice, cowpea, cotton and sweet potato
