# The Battle for African Agriculture Podcast || Episode 14 Micheal Antoniou

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Podcast: [Battle For African Agriculture Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/battle-for-african-agriculture-podcast-7332764)
Published: 2025-11-20T18:00:23+00:00
Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/battle-for-african-agriculture-podcast/2338227
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Duration seconds: 3682

## Resource

In this episode of The Battle for African Agriculture, Dr. Million Belay speaks with Professor Michael Antoniou, a molecular geneticist whose decades of work in medical biotechnology give him a rare insider view on the limits and dangers of applying genetic engineering to agriculture. Although he uses gene technologies in tightly controlled clinical settings, he explains why releasing genetically modified and gene-edited crops into the environment is scientifically risky, poorly regulated, and fundamentally different from their use in medicine.

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