Project Reports, Articles, and Videos

• The Impact of Late Blight Disease for Bangladesh Farmers, September 2024
• Promising development for late blight resistance, May 2024
• "Give us the GMO seed!" Requests potato farmers in Kenya, April 2024 Kataru Concepts Africa
• Going up Mt. Kenya with no potato to show, April 2024 Kataru Concepts Africa
• GMO Advocacy in Kenya: Bungoma and Trans-nzoia counties, March 2024 Kataru Concepts Africa
• The long journey to accepting GMOs in Kenya, February 2024 Kataru Concepts Africa
• Kenyan chief, Peter Ndugire discusses late blight resistant potatoes in Kenya January 2024
• Kenyan farmer, David Waweru discusses late blight resistant potatoes in Kenya January 2024
• Moses Ndura from the Kenyan seed sector discusses late blight resistant potatoes in Kenya January 2024
• Agricultural extension trainer, Solomon Kinyanjui discusses late blight resistant potatoes in Kenya January 2024
• Roy Mugira from the Kenyan National Biosafety Authority discusses late blight resistant potatoes in Kenya January 2024
• Catherine Taracha from the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization discusses late blight resistant potatoes in Kenya January 2024
• International Potato Center (CIP) researcher Eric Magembe discusses late blight resistant potatoes in Kenya January 2024
• 2023 Project Annual Report
• Farmers would love to make more money from potatoes on the slopes of Mt. Elgon December 2023 Kataru Concepts Africa
• For the love of the potato, biotechnology shall ensure a steady supply! December 2023 Kataru Concepts Africa
• Bari starts trials for late blight resistance 3R potato  November 2023 Daily Observer - Bangladesh
• Nigeria's GM potato project concludes first-year trial, shows 300% yield advantage November 2023 Nigerian Tribune–Nigeria
• Scientists develop new GM potato variety free from blight disease November 2023 Nation-Kenya Edition
• Biotechnology offers hope in delivering potatoes free from devastating late blight disease September 22, 2023
• Food security scientist urged to deploy technology in potato production September 23, 2023
• Late blight resistant potatoes: Fostering hope for sustainable food security September 23, 2023
• Intensifying the GMO campaign on social media platforms September 26, 2023
• Feed the Future Global Biotech Potato Partnership in Kenya and Nigeria  August 2023
• Farming technologies in Kenya need to co-exist August 11, 2023
• Genetic engineering goes beyond crops and animals with very good products August 23, 2023
• Common points used by anti-gmo activists to spread misinformation in Kenya and Africa July 28, 2023
• Facts the media should report about GMO's June 7, 2023
• GMO gave us the revolutionary insulin drug that's saving lives April 18, 2023
• Let us politic on gmo with facts March 1, 2023
• Deployment of Late Blight Resistant Potatoes in Africa World Potato Congress Webinar with March Ghislain and Eric Magembe March 7, 2023
• Talking Biotech with Kevin Folta and Dave Douches  March 17, 2023
• Kenya needs more gmo crops released for open cultivation March 26, 2023
• International Potato Center unveils late blight resistant potato for Kenya and Nigeria March 28, 2023
• Resistance to new crops and the government's role February 1, 2023
• The anti-gmo petition is an advantage to the technology January 11, 2023
• Understanding Genetic Engineering and it's Benefits December 20, 2022
• International Potato Center creates blight-resistant potato varieties December 5, 2022
• Nigeria harvests first batch of biotech potatoes November 29, 2022
• Talking GMO's in Kenya - Eric Magembe November 2022 TV interview
• Eric Magembe on GMO's in Kenya November 2022 radio interview
• GMO in Kenya - Eric Magembe November 2022 TV interview in Swahili
• New partnership to improve potato productivity debuts in Nigeria July 13, 2022
• Trust, Critical Thinking, and Potatoes by Dave Douches January 23, 2022
• 2022 Project Annual Report
• Feed the Future Global Biotechnology Potato Partnership Semi-Annual Report 2022
• Genotypic characterization of Phytophthora infestans populations in Bangladesh
• Identification of T-DNA structure and insertion site in transgenic crops using targeted capture sequencing 
• Partnership on track to give Bangladeshi and Indonesian farmers disease resistant GMO potatoes

Agricultural Biotechnology Resources

•  International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications 
•  Potato Breeding and Genetics Program
• Alliance for Science
•   International Potato Center
•  U.S. Food & Drug Administration
•  U.S. Department of Agriculture

 

More

• Implications and Lessons From the Introduction of Genome-Edited Food Products in Japan
• Check out the progress of the International Potato Center's efforts to bring a Late Blight resistant potato to Uganda in this video Uganda's GMO Potato Story.
• EU Also Working On Solutions to Late Blight Using Biotechnology Research Shows GM Potato Variety Combined With New Management Techniques Can Cut Fungicide Use By Up To 90%. 
• 13 Nations Say It's Time to End 'Political Posturing' and Embrace Crop Gene Editing.
• ISAAA Brief 55-2019 Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2019.
• ISAAA Pocket Ks – Pockets of Knowledge on crop biotechnology products and related issues.
• Are GMO’s Safe?
• Are GMO’s Necessary to Feed the World?
• GM crops: global socio-economic and environmental impacts 1996-2020.