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Region abandons pro-GMO arena as Kenya awaits first seed import

Anti-GMO demonstration in Nairobi

Anti-GMO activists demonstrating in Nairobi on December 8, 2016. Kenya now stands alone in the region as far as the importation and growing of genetically modified organisms is concerned. PHOTO | FILE | NMG

By  The EastAfrican

Kenya stands alone in the region as far as the importation and growing of genetically modified organisms (GMO) is concerned.

Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi have all said they are not open to GMOs, and the wider East African Community concurs.

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