Video: CRISPRcon 2019 – Panel Discussion “Growing for Good? Gene Editing and Agriculture”

Nigerian Global Farmer Network member, Pasensya Koku, wrote a few weeks ago in Let Africans Decide What Is Best For Africa about her participation on a panel at CRISPRcon 2019. The video of the recent panel discusson held in the Netherlands can be found at the organization’s website and seen at their YouTube page. So now you can see for yourself exactly what this remarkable woman and farmer meant she posed the question in her column, “Why was a European “expert” lecturing me on what African farmers need and don’t need?”

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[Via] CRISPRcon – Published on Jul 8, 2019

Gene editing could control crop pests, improve animal welfare, enhance nutrition, increase yields and more. What are the potential solutions and problems created or perpetuated by gene editing, including those related to social, economic and environmental outcomes? What are the right expectations for gene editing in agriculture? How can we ensure societal benefit?

Panelists:

-Johan van Arendonk, Hendrix Genetics

-Pasensya Koku, Replenish Farms

-Niels Louwaars, Plantum

-Leon Mol, Ahold Delhaize

-Tom Wakeford, ETC Group

Moderator: Hidde Boersma, Freelance Journalist

CRISPRcon – a program of the non-advocacy, non-profit Keystone Policy Center – creates a unique forum in which a broad selection of diverse voices come together to discuss the societal aspects of CRISPR and other emerging genetic technologies across applications including agriculture, health, and conservation. CRISPRcon 2019 was hosted by Wageningen University and Research on June 20-21 in the Netherlands. This marked the third annual CRISPRcon and the first outside the U.S.

For more info, pagbisita CRISPRcon.org.

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Onyaole Pailob Koku

Ang Patience Koku nagserbisyo sa GFN isip Regional Lead: Africa. Ang umahan ni Patience nahimutang sa Jere Azara nga pamaagi sa irigasyon, Kagarko Lokal nga gobyerno, sa Kaduna State Nigeria. Ang umahan nagpatunghag duha ka pananom kada tuig ubos sa center pivot irrigation. Nagtubo sila kasagarang binhi nga mais ug lugas sa mais alang sa mga dagkong kompanya sa pagproseso sa pagkaon sa Nigeria, sama sa Flour Mills sa Nigeria. Siya ang nakadawat sa 2019 Kleckner Award gikan sa Global Farmer Network ug 2018 Cornell Alliance Para sa Science Farmer sa tuig. Nagserbisyo usab siya sa Cornell Alliance For Science advisory board. Sa iyang panahon isip membro sa GFN, siya nagpasiugda sa dagkong mga yugto.

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· Agosto 17, 2019 sa 8:21 am

Hidde Boersma is one of the producers of a fantastic documentary, “Well Fed”, for which everyone should spare some 50 minuto.

It’s here, with a possibility to activate Dutch, Iningles, French or Spanish subtitles:

https://vimeo.com/188913344

If the filmakers read this, and even if not… CONGRATULATION! I had some nice things to say about it here:

seppi.over-blog.com/2018/12/well-fed-bien-nourris-un-vrai-documentaire-sur-les-ogm.html

And CONGRATULATIONS, Patience for your efforts.