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Despite having spent most of the night marking university examination papers, Prof Norah Khadzini Olembo was vivacious and jovial as she ushered us into her lavishly furnished house in Lavington. [...] Besides teaching, Olembo is the executive director of the African Biotechnology Stakeholders Forum (ABSF), a non-governmental organisation that provides a platform for sharing, debating and understanding issues pertaining to biotechnology agriculture, health, industry and environment. [...] ”In Kenya we have been at the forefront lobbying for a biotechnology policy and we expect it to form part of the debate when Parliament resumes,” she says.
2007-03-27 | permalink
Despite having spent most of the night marking university examination papers, Prof Norah Khadzini Olembo was vivacious and jovial as she ushered us into her lavishly furnished house in Lavington. [...] Besides teaching, Olembo is the executive director of the African Biotechnology Stakeholders Forum (ABSF), a non-governmental organisation that provides a platform for sharing, debating and understanding issues pertaining to biotechnology agriculture, health, industry and environment. [...] ”In Kenya we have been at the forefront lobbying for a biotechnology policy and we expect it to form part of the debate when Parliament resumes,” she says.
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