Abstract:
Uganda is steadily integrating biotechnology into national development processes. Over the past 15 years, Uganda has been developing critical capacity across sectors in order to develop and apply modern biotechnology for the benefit of the country. In 2008, the Government of Uganda adopted the National Biotechnology and Biosafety Policy. A major guiding principle was to build human resource and infrastructure capacity so as to strengthen research, development and innovation in biotechnology. The country recognises that the use of modern biotechnology tools such as genetic engineering is regulated in nearly all countries and is at advanced stages of preparing necessary legal instruments through an explicit law.