The Mozambican government is the most recent African country to join the Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa (OFAB), where it defended that the technology generation process must be fast enough to respond to the challenges posed by constant and rapid climate change.
According to the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of the country, Olegário Banze, who was speaking in the opening speech of the forum, in Maputo, the cyclical occurrence of extreme climatic events that can be mitigated, in part, by the implementation of agricultural biotechnology, through of providing more food to the population.
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For the public manager, Mozambique's adherence to the OFAB initiative is an opportunity for the creation of a permanent and regular platform, where all stakeholders and stakeholders in the area of agricultural biotechnology, who meet to discuss and propose ways for greater understanding and promotion the use of technological solutions and products generated using biotechnology not only in Mozambique, but in the rest of Africa.
It should be noted that before Mozambique, OFAB is already implemented in eight other African countries, namely Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, and where the next country to join the initiative is Malawi.
For the Executive Director of the African Agricultural Technologies Foundation (AATF), Canissius Kanangire, Mozambique's accession to OFAB is a historic milestone, not only for the country, but also for SADC and the rest of Africa .
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