video: CRISPRcon 2019 – Perbincangan Panel “Berkembang untuk Baik? Penyuntingan dan Pertanian Gen”

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Ahli Jaringan Petani Global Nigeria, Sabarlah 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 Europeanexpertlecturing me on what African farmers need and don’t need?”

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[Via] CRISPRconPublished 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
-Sabarlah 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, kesihatan, 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, lawatan CRISPRcon.org.
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Kesabaran Onyaole Koku

Patience Koku berkhidmat dengan GFN sebagai Ketua Serantau: Afrika. Ladang Patience terletak di skema pengairan Jere Azara, kerajaan Kagarko Tempatan, di Kaduna State Nigeria. Ladang ini menghasilkan dua tanaman setiap tahun di bawah pengairan pangsi tengah. Mereka kebanyakannya menanam benih jagung dan bijirin jagung untuk syarikat pemprosesan makanan utama di Nigeria, seperti Flour Mills Nigeria. Beliau adalah penerima 2019 Anugerah Kleckner dari Farmer Network Global dan 2018 Cornell Alliance For Science Farmer dalam setahun. Beliau juga berkhidmat sebagai ahli lembaga penasihat Cornell Alliance For Science. Pada zamannya sebagai ahli GFN, dia telah menyokong pada peringkat utama.

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

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

    https://vimeo.com/188913344

    If the filmakers read this, and even if notCONGRATULATION! 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.