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

Nigerian Global Farmer Network member, Sabirka 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

-Sabirka 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 gudaha Nederland. This marked the third annual CRISPRcon and the first outside the U.S.

For more info, booqasho CRISPRcon.org.

la xiriira

Sabirku Onyaole Koku

Patience Koku waxay u adeegaysaa GFN sidii Hoggaanka Gobolka: Afrika. Beerta Patience waxay ku taallaa nidaamka waraabka Jere Azara, Dawlada Hoose ee Kagarko, ee Gobolka Kaduna ee Nigeria. Beertu waxay soo saartaa laba dalag sanadkiiba iyadoo hoos timaada waraabka xudunta u ah. Waxay inta badan u koraan galleyda iyo hadhuudhka galleyda ee shirkadaha waaweyn ee wax soo saara cuntada ee Nigeria, sida Flour Mills of Nigeria. Iyadu waa qaataha 2019 Abaalmarinta Kleckner oo ka socota Shabakadda Beeraha Adduunka iyo 2018 Isbahaysiga Cornell ee Beeraha Sayniska sannadka. Waxay kaloo u adeegtaa guddiga latalinta Sayniska ee Cornell Alliance. Waqtigeedii ay xubin ka ahayd GFN, Waxay u doodday marxalado waaweyn.

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

Seppi
· August 17, 2019 at 8:21 am

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

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