title: Africa needs streamlined regulation to support the deployment of GM crops.
abstract: Future food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) requires enhancement of its crop production. Transgenic crops with a poverty focus can enhance harvests and are available for staples such as cooking bananas and plantains. One constraint is optimisation of national biosafety processes to support rapid and safe uptake of such beneficial crops.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. Electronic address: h.j.atkinson@leeds.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Howard J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Atkinson
authors.affiliation: Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
authors.forename: Hugh
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Roderick
authors.affiliation: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nairobi, Kenya.
authors.forename: Leena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tripathi
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D000383:Agriculture / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D018556:Crops, Agricultural; D005523:Food Supply; D006801:Humans; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified
keywords: Africa; biosafety; genetic modification; regulation