Video: CRISPRcon 2019 – Panel Discussion “Mitombo for Good? Gene Fanovana sy ny Fambolena”

Global Farmer Network Nizeriana mpikambana, Patience 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

-Patience 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, fitsidihana CRISPRcon.org.

Onyaole Patience Koku

Patience Koku dia manompo ny GFN amin'ny maha-mpitarika ny faritra azy: afrika. Patience's farm is located on the Jere Azara irrigation scheme, Kagarko governemanta eo an-toerana, in Kaduna State Nizeria. Ny toeram-pambolena dia mamokatra vokatra roa isan-taona eo ambanin'ny fanondrahana pivot afovoany. Mamboly katsaka sy voam-bary ho an'ny orinasa lehibe fanodinana sakafo any Nizeria izy ireo, toy ny Flour Mills ny Nizeria. Izy no mpandray ny 2019 Kleckner Award avy ao amin'ny Global Farmer Network sy 2018 Cornell Alliance Fa Siansa Farmer ny taona. Izy ihany koa ny manompo ao amin'ny Cornell Alliance Fa Science Birao Mpanolo-tsaina. Tamin'ny fotoana naha-mpikambana azy tao amin'ny GFN, nisolo vava azy tamin'ny dingana lehibe.

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One thought on “Video: CRISPRcon 2019 – Panel Discussion “Mitombo for Good? Gene Fanovana sy ny Fambolena””

Seppi
· Aogositra 17, 2019 amin'ny 8:21 am

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

It’s here, with a possibility to activate Dutch, anglisy, 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.