Isaaa AfriCenter

Isaaa AfriCenter AfriCenter was established in 1994. Our goal is to enhance food security and reduce poverty in sub-Saharan Africa through biotechnological interventions.

28/11/2025

Baboons🐒 will want to sn**ch bags for snacks. Elephants 🐘will be happy to traverse farmlands. Buffalos🐃 will love to gore. Koalas🐨just stare innocently- almost as if they are learning from their counterparts in the wild.

Communities living close to conservancies, near wildlife corridors, or in what has for ages been animal-wildlife interfaces face the threat of constant faceoffs with wildlife.

The risks of conflict and of transmission of zoonotic disease have seen experts such as Pro Prisca Mugabe of The University of Zimbabwe dedicate their lives to studying rangelands and co-creating, with communities, interventions to reduce animal-human friction, as she explains to Peter Theuri on the Africa Science Dialogue podcast.

University of Zimbabwe's Prof Prisca Mugabe boasts nearly four decades of experience in university teaching, research, a...
26/11/2025

University of Zimbabwe's Prof Prisca Mugabe boasts nearly four decades of experience in university teaching, research, and community outreach.

Prof Mugabe speaks to Peter Theuri about management of rangeland systems with an unmatched fluency, and she discusses planetary health, and one health, with the passion of someone who truly believes that good decisions made today, and worthwhile compromises, could contribute to a successful future of Africa .

As a seasoned leader in curriculum development,
institutional reviews, and academic program management, she discusses what the upcoming professionals need to be ready for work.

Tomorrow, 🗓️27.11.2025, at 🕰️1930hrs EAT, we engage her on podcast (youtube.com//st…) as we discuss the future of our animals, humans, and our environment.

25/11/2025

Says Prof Shaukat Abdularazak, PS, Science, Research and Innovation: "The government places a very high premium on science, research and innovation for food security and economic development."

In support of the government's efforts to ensure food security of our country- and continent- we have ensured that the Africa Science Dialogue platform (afriscidialogue.org) allows you to get fact-checked, verified and relevant information from experts on different science topics that, all together, help is secure a stable future for us, and for our children.

24/11/2025

Says Dr Canisius Kanangire, Executive Director of AATF: Our dignity, safety as a people and continent depend on our capacity to feed our people.

ILRI Comesa AUDA NEPAD Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology - Kenya Chapter

Prof Mizeck Chagunda wears so many hats 🎩 it could take a whole podcast to count them all. Which is part of what we shal...
07/05/2025

Prof Mizeck Chagunda wears so many hats 🎩 it could take a whole podcast to count them all. Which is part of what we shall be doing here- on The Africa Science Dialogue- asking about his experiences as a university professor, institute director, esteemed scholar, and astute researcher.

But mostly, we shall talk about how Africa and its livestock benefits from biotechnology.

Prof Mizeck Chagunda is as respected in Africa- his birthplace- as he is in Europe, testament to his brilliant CV from both places. Yet he is extremely unassuming, and engages with the grace of a man who has seen very high ups and some low downs, those that refine humans and bring out their best selves.

Prof Chagunda, who is a quantitative animal geneticist by training, has extensive expertise in tropical livestock breeding and genetics. He is a full professor in Tropical Livestock Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. He is also the director of CTLGH.

Join us this 🗓️Thursday, May 8, 2025, starting 1930hrs EAT (7:30pm) on youtube.com/watch?v=4f8ArO… as we engage Prof Chagunda on The Africa Science Dialogue.

07/04/2025

ISAAA AfriCenter is participating in The CGIAR Science Week (7 - 12 April 2025) in Nairobi, Kenya, and will be panelists on a side-event discussing CTLGH and Livestock Biotechnologies for AU Agenda 2063, The Africa We Want on Thursday, April 10.

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Look where misinformation and disinformation is taking us.
07/04/2025

Look where misinformation and disinformation is taking us.

07/04/2025

Nutritionists oftentimes bear the brunt of misinformation and disinformation, because they have to keep extinguishing fires caused by runaway pseuds. About biotech? Even worse. Nutritionists- and other scientists- speak about their experiences here https://ow.ly/zOLY50Vvu8j and it has, clearly, not been easy. Here, they were told how to deal with this misinformation and disinformation in this ISAAA-led workshop.

Africa's population is projected to hit a staggering 2.5 billion by 2050- just a quarter century away. (2050 might look ...
04/04/2025

Africa's population is projected to hit a staggering 2.5 billion by 2050- just a quarter century away. (2050 might look quite far away, but it is not; 25 years ago was the turn of the 21st century, which looks like the other day).
Africa will need to feed this huge population amid damaging climate change and geopolitical tensions- and other conflicts- that hamper agricultural productivity.
Agricultural biotechnology brings in a lot of potential for the continent, with key innovations ensuring food security in the future.
However, misinformation and disinformation surrounding agricultural biotechnology- and generally biosciences- slows down the rate of adoption of some of these biotechnologies, much to the detriment of the masses.
Fortunately, Africa Science Dialogue, https://afriscidialogue.org/auth/sign-up, provides answers to some of the most asked questions, and any other questions that you may have, and in great detail.

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