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For more than 50 years, the International Council for Science (ICSU) has had world data centers -- open, nonpolitical repositories of data for scientists in every country. Now, the ICSU is replacing the centers with a leading-edge World Data System (WDS) whose scope and technologies are evolving but whose policy of nondiscriminatory access to science remains a priority.
The adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops to off-set the current food crisis and increase the volume of agricultural exports in the country should be a last resort, agricultural experts have said.
Over 700 of Africa's best agricultural research scientists crammed the arrival and departure lounges at Entebbe International Airport last week.
African Agriculture Ministers have called on governments to increase financial resources for scientific research in order to optimise agricultural production.
Government should consider the Enactment of a National Biosafety policy to regulate biotechnology use in the country. Scientists lack a developed system for the regulation of genetic modification.
There is frenzy in Kampala, especially among the middle class, of a new type of small glass, with near magical powers, claimed to enhance body mood and replenish water and other beverages with lost essential minerals.
On occasions I write my column from various parts of the world - if I happen to be travelling. I no longer have the excuse that I am out of the country, since in today's world one is only the click of a mouse away from being in touch.
A Kenyan has been named winner of the 2009 Young Women Conservation Biologists Award. Ms Shivani Bhalla was unanimously selected by Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) Africa Section Young Women Conservation Biologists Awards Panel.
Malawi's newly re-elected president has promised increased investment in science as part of a plan to transform the country into a net exporter of goods and services.
The elimination of deadly aflatoxin, which contaminates food crops in Sub-Saharan Africa, is a step closer now scientists have shown that a control method works well in large-scale field trials.
Dr Gabi Schneider, director of the Ministry of Mines' Geological Survey, says the journey of the rhino fossil found at Lake Guinas remains a mystery, as people are reluctant to reveal who was behind the illegal transportation of the bone to South Africa.
An HIV test using dried blood samples is fast, inexpensive, and could aid the testing and treatment of HIV-positive babies in the first year of life, scientists say.
A tsetse fly that transmits sleeping sickness has a penchant for lizard and pig odour - a preference that could be used to produce traps to control fly populations.
Angolan cabinet council approved this Wednesday the national plans of geology and humans resources development of the Geologic Institute.
Juvenal Sibomana, a biology teacher in Nyamagabe School of Science, is struggling. Obviously he finds biology and other sciences fascinating, but he's having a hard time getting the message through to students.
Qualcomm, a research and development company, whose focus is to facilitate low-cost technology for operators and end-users of the coded division multiple access (CDMA) technology, has unveiled new initiatives that will boost CDMA growth.
Several technological designs at the Covenant University are now ready for government intervention to translate them for commercial use and begin the drive for local input into technological advancement and contribution by Nigerian scientists.
Developing world communities could become part of the multi-billion dollar carbon market if a project to assess the amount of carbon locked up in soils proves successful.
The Japanese "Sumitomo" firm presented last Friday in northern Bengo province "Olyset" mosquito net model containing insecticides, different from other types used to combat malaria.
PARLIAMENT has ratified the Sadc Protocol on Science and Technology and Innovation aimed at improving the sector among member countries.
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) claims that its "stress breeding", high-yield seed program and its emphasis on grassroots farmer input will boost agricultural production among poor, small scale farmers.
The Minister of Science and Technology in the President's office, Prof. Romain Murenzi, has revealed that his ministry will soon present a draft ICT bill in parliament that will establish a law to govern science and technology.
THERE is need for the media to report more on science and technology issues if the country is to achieve real economic development, a Cabinet minister has said.
The Scientific Industrial Research Development Centre requires about US$4,5 million to resuscitate its operations that where severely affected by the changeover from the use of local currency to multiple currencies.
The first new tuberculosis drug in 40 years has successfully treated multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients in a clinical trial in South Africa.
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