15:55 – 16:15 Speaker 1: Dr. Seyi Ebun Adeboye, NBDA
Understanding farmers’ preferences for the establishment of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in selected tomato cultivars using gene editing in Nigeria
16:15 – 16:35 Speaker 2: Mr. Sidney Engelbrecht, Africa Bioethics Network / KAUST
Legal and Ethical Frameworks for Access and Benefit-sharing Genetics sources in the context of the Nagoya Protocol in the Southern African Development Community Region
16:35 – 16:55 Speaker 3: Prof. Dr. Herve Vanderschuren, KU Leuven
Fostering adoption of agricultural biotechnology in the Global South through effective technology transfer and responsible communication
16:55 – 17:40 Panel discussion: Ethical and Social Issues in African Plant Genomics
Moderator: Anthony Aseta
Panel: Mercury Shitindo, Devang Mehta, Sidney Engelbrecht, Leena Tripathi, Jacky Kado