Participants at the just-ended five-day study tour to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have appealed to African leaders to as a matter of urgency honour their pledge of contributing one per cent of their GDP to Research and Development. The one percent contribution of their GDP would be invested into science, technology, and innovation to realise the Agenda 2063, “the Africa we want”. Participants were in Ethiopia to learn from Ethiopia’s experience in fostering an enabling environment for genome editing and its regulations. He called on African leaders to put more resources into research and development to realise the “Africa we Want,’ adding, “Without science, Africa will not go anywhere. Dr Kassahun Tesfaye, Director General BETin said: “We must Africanise some of the technologies including genome editing to address the problems of food security”.

Source: Ethiopian News March 05, 2023 21:19 UTC