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December 15, 2019
Nigeria commercializes first transgenic food crop, a pod borer resistant cowpea variety
November 21, 2019
Ghana’s parliament gives GMO crops a boost
September 9, 2019
This crop is helping us understand humanity’s nomadic past — and prepare for a hotter, drier future - Researchers turn to cowpea DNA to explore and improve the climate resilience of the globally important crop (Ensia)
April 23, 2019
Namibian farmers introduced to new cowpea and sorghum crop varieties (New Era Live)
March 27, 2019
Nigeria - Pod borer resistant (PBR) cowpea: providing solution to farmers' plight (Leadership Newspaper)
March 10, 2019
Nigeria - Commercial release of pod borer resistant cowpea (III) (Leadership Newspaper)
March 3, 2019
Nigeria - Commercial release of pod borer resistant cowpea (II) (Leadership Newspaper)
February 25, 2019
Nigeria approves genetically modified, pod borer resitant cowpea for environmental release
February 15, 2019
The genetic improvement of cowpea: develop high-yielding varieties (Open Access Government)
February 11, 2019
Major breakthrough for farmers and scientists as Nigerian biotech body approves commercial release of genetically modified cowpea
January 29, 2019
Nigeria - Federal Government okays release of first GM food crop, PBR cowpea (Leadership)
January 23, 2019
Nigeria moves forward to Bt cowpea commercialization
January 11, 2019
Nigeria - GMO cowpea: Bridging the gap between innovation and social change
December 6, 2018
Harnessing the genetic diversity of a dynamic crop: cowpea (Open Access Government)
November 9, 2018
Ghana prepares to commercialize its first GMO crop
July 15, 2018
Texas A&M AgriLife Research releases new Ace cowpea
February 12, 2018
Nigeria - Local companies gear up for commercialization of GM seeds (Leadership)
February 11, 2018
University of Georgia research hopes the key to fighting cowpea curculio lies in snap bean genes
January 24, 2018
Plagued by pest, African farmers may soon have access to insect-resistant GMO cowpeas—for free (Genetic Literacy Project)
December 22, 2017
Namibia - Ministry of Agriculture unveils first seeds bred in Namibia by Namibians using mutation breeding (AllAfrica)
December 13, 2017
Indian Institute of Technology researchers develop viral disease resistant variety of cowpea (Research Matters)
December 3, 2017
Ghana - A three-year $689,984 project to increase the yields of cowpea, groundnut, and soybean of smallholder farmers in the north has been launched (Modern Ghana)
November 30, 2017
Ghana - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI) launches legumes improvement project (Ghana News Agency)
November 8, 2017
Nigeria - University Don seeks special attention to cowpea production (This Day)
October 26, 2017
Cowpea protected from a devastating pest, free for smallholder African farmers - Scientists have discovered a new mechanism to protect cowpea from pod borers that destroy smallholder farmers' yields
October 18, 2017
Nigeria prepares for commercialisation of Bt cowpea, cotton
October 15, 2017
Nigeria - National Agricultural Research System declares Bt cowpea safe for human consumption (Vanguard)
October 8, 2017
Nigeria - Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology discloses that farmers will have access to BT cowpea, cotton in 2018 (Vanguard)
July 31, 2017
Brasil - Variedade de feijão-caupi para agricultura familiar na região Norte
July 17, 2017
Cultivo de feijão caupi biofortificado em rotação de culturas com o arroz é tema de dia de campo
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