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The recent move by President William Ruto to lift the 2012 ban on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) as a response to the ongoing drought and food insecurity, has kicked off a storm on their pros and cons.
The Kenyan government had banned the importation and growing of GMO crops and products following a 2012 study by Prof Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University of Caen in France that linked GMOs to cancer.
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