This issue of the ABNE Newsletter provides information on how “seeing-is-believing” or study tours to small-scale holdings with genetically engineered crops have impact on our policy makers, regulators and other stakeholders.

In addition, this newsletter includes the progress in Malawi on the confined field trial of insect-resistant transgenic cotton; the coordination meeting of biosafety service providers in Africa held in Ghana; the kick-off event for the John Templeton Foundation grant to ABNE; photo gallery; ABNE new staff and upcoming events.