Despite controversy, AfricaBP aims to safeguard the continent's biodiversity through genomic sequencing

Despite controversy, AfricaBP aims to safeguard the continent's biodiversity through genomic sequencing

Africa must embrace genomics if it wants to achieve food security and conserve vital biodiversity, according to the African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP), a platform working to expand capacity and infrastructure for genomics across the continent. However, this is no small task. Despite food insecurity and disappearing biodiversity, Africa has been slow—even apprehensive—to embrace genomics that could alleviate such problems. Globally, the genomic…