Lift genetically modified organisms ban for food security, State told

Kisumu Governor Jack Ranguma and ISAAA Africenter Director Dr Margaret Karembu during a stakeholders’ meeting on the GMO ban at the Nairobi Safari Club Hotel.  [PHOTO: MBUGUA KIBERA/STANDARD]

Kenya: Governors have backed scientists and lobbied the biotechnology task force to present its findings to enable Government lift the ban on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).

The ban on GMOs, if not reversed soon, will hurt Kenya’s economy and further worsen food insecurity, governors and scientists have warned.