Bioscience for Farming in Africa Media project Adelaide Arthur
Joy News TV, Accra, Ghana
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Bioscience for Farming in Africa Media project About 160
Journalists from four African nations; Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and
Uganda participated in the B4FA media project. The media fellows
were taken through biotechnology training and its application to
farming. The project was to increase the knowledge of the
journalists about the technology to help them better report on the
issues relating to GM and other biotech tools.
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Since its inception in September, 2012, journalists have
visited several research facilities and farms. It also provided a
great opportunity to interact with scientists in the four African
countries as well as in the USA and UK. We visited research
facilities such as Du Pont Pioneer, Iowa, USA, Rothamstead
Research, UK, John Innes Centre, UK, NIAB Innovation Farm, UK,
Crops Research Institute, Ghana, Food Research Institute, Ghana
etc.
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Some media fellows also had the opportunity to attend the 2013
World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogues and 2014 conference of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Over the
2-year period, journalists have produced over one thousand news
stories and features for Television, radio, newspaper, magazine and
online. The training was finally wrapped up in April, 2014 in
Cambridge, UK. For sustainability, media fellows have formed the
Africa Network of Agriculture Journalists to ensure consistent
reporting of agric issues.