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Same seed, different rules: 34 nations regulate gene-edited crops, report urges alignment

A dialogue report from the UK-CGIAR Centre's wheat improvement project, drawing on a June 2026 policy-learning event with eight countries, finds 34 countries with genome-editing frameworks and 39 changing theirs, warns that the same product can be classed differently across borders, and recommends a

CABI18 September 20262 min read

Agrotech

CABI puts plant-health and palm-weevil knowledge on Hugging Face as AI-ready datasets

Under the Gates Foundation and UK-funded GAIA project, CABI's first two datasets — Plant Health Knowledge for AI, with PlantwisePlus factsheets and pest guides from Kenya, Ethiopia and India, and Palm Weevil Knowledge for AI, on a pest costing about US$2 billion a year and touching 50 million farmer

CABI15 September 20262 min read

Agribusiness

Banks meet under a quarter of African coffee smallholders' credit needs, CABI paper finds

Research in Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, set out in CABI Working Paper 38 by Dr Morris Akiri, finds commercial banks provide about 7% of formal farm credit; unrealistic interest rates, monthly repayments that ignore the harvest cycle and land-title collateral exclude women an

CABI7 September 20262 min read