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AU confident over transformative impact modern biotechnology can have on Africa’s agric sector
Biocontrol is an ancient practice involving the use of beneficiary insects or animals to control unwanted and problematic ones. The concept of genetic biocontrol is simply, the use of genetically modified organisms through gene drives and gene editing to control other problematic organisms. Hence, the identification also of this concept by the High-Level Panel of Experts on Emerging Technologies and subsequent recommendation by the AU for its adoption in the continent’s fight against malaria for member states to consider.