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IIBN

International Industrial Biotechnology Network (IIBN)

Mission IIBN fosters sustainable biotechnology applications for innovative farming and inclusive industrial development with a focus on low and middle-income countries.

Furarn

Flanders-UNIDO risk assessment research network ( FURARN)

FURARN is an international coordination action project funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO Vlaanderen) and UNIDO. The network aims to bring together scientists and biosafety experts with complementary expertise in fields allowing the risk assessment of a GMO.

As a networking institute and focal point bringing together different disciplines in the field of biotechnology and biosafety, the Institute of Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries (IPBO) acts as the coordinator of the FURARN network.

bio economy

ALCUE-KBBE – Towards a latin American and Caribbean knowledge-base bio-economy in partnership with Europe

The emerging bio-economy is increasingly viewed as a workable alternative to moving today’s economies toward more sustainable natural resource use and economic growth in different parts of the world.

Lathyrus

Lathyrus

Lathyrus sativus (grass pea or chickling vetch, guaya in Ethiopia, khesari in India) is a daily food for millions in Asia and Africa. It was already harvested in neolithic times and is still a popular and promising crop, producing the cheapest dietary protein available. The plant is probably the most drought tolerant legume crop and also resistant to moderate salinity.

Cassava

Cassava

Cassava or manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz, fam. Euphorbiaceae) is a tropical food crop widely grown in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The leaves are consumed as green vegetables and the roots as a staple food in most cassava-growing countries, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, Cameroon, Liberia, etc.