About
The mBio Project exists to expand knowledge of genetically modified (GM) crop development on the African continent. The project began in 2020 as a way to research the historical and current state of GM crops in Africa. Since then, it has expanded to explore the projects, narratives, and financial partnerships that undergird GM crop development.
Our databases are designed to reflect the dynamic and changing nature of GM crop research and development on the continent. If you would like to submit a new entry, or correction to an existing entry, please contact us here.
The mBio Project is a collaboration between researchers based at the University of San Francisco, University of Chicago, Stony Brook University, and Telecom Paris [Institut Polytechnique de Paris].
Published Work
- Seeds of Discourse: A Multilingual Corpus of Direct Quotations from African Media on Agricultural Biotechnologies
April 2025 • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025
- BioMAISx: A Corpus for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis of Media Representations of Agricultural Biotechnologies in Africa
October 2024 • Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
- Bridging the gap? Public-private partnerships and genetically modified crop development for smallholder farmers in Africa
March 2024 • Plants, People, Planet
- OMGMO: Original Multi-modal Dataset of Genetically Modified Organisms in African Agriculture
October 2022 • Social Informatics (SocInfo 2022), Springer
mBio in the Media
Our work has been cited in international outlets including The Economist, The Nation, and Reporterre.