Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe

Of GM Crops, Safety and Ignorance By Abdallah el-Kurebe  “Victims live by excuses and ultimately die by them” “Genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, remain controversial, but like so many other politically hot topics, the controversy is more cultural than scientific,” – Dr. Steven Novella, a Senior Fellow and Director of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) Science-Based Medicine project. “The genetic modification of crop plants is the defining feature of the domestication of plants by humans for agriculture,” – Biosciences for Farming in Africa (B4FA). “As a result and contrary to popular misconceptions, GM crops are the most extensively tested…

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Good Governance, Corruption and Developing Nations: The Role of the Media By Abdallah el-Kurebe The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in a 1997 policy document described good governance as a measure that defines the processes and structures that guide political and socioeconomic relationships. The key challenges facing Nigeria today is lack of good governance.  Coupled with this, is one of the major obstacles that have consistently thwarted our national progress and the actualization of good governance – corruption. Governance is about making decisions and exercising power over people across the divides. Today, of global phenomenon is the word, ‘Good’, which…

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Our role in boosting resilience of smallholder farmer in developing world – Dupont Pioneer By Abdallah el-Kurebe The Director of Agriculture for Dupont Pioneer, Ms Lystra Antoine has explained the role that the seed company as a private sector is playing, is boosting the resilience of smallholder farmers, especially in the developing world. She said that the ways in which the company was contributing to the food and nutrition security of smallholders is by disseminating the company’s science-based technologies, such as hybrid seed. In a meeting with Farming First (a global coalition of organizations that works to articulate, promote a…

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