AAGEPF	AUDA-NEPAD APET Genome Editing Policy Framework
ACPOFS	Africa Common Position On Food Systems Food Security
APET	African Panel on Emerging Technologies
ARCN	Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria
AU	African Union
AUDA-NEPAD	African Union Development Agency-NEPAD
CASS	Cassava Source-Sink
CFT	Confined field Trial
CIAT	International Center for Tropical Agriculture
CRISPR/CaS	Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR-associated protein
CGIAR	Consortium Group for International Agricultural Research
FAOSTAT	Food and Agricultural Organisation Statistics
GEd	Genome/Gene editing
GMO	Genetically Modified Organism
HDR	Homology Directed Repair
HE	Homing Endonucleases
MLN	Maize Lethal Necrosis
IITA	International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
OFSP	Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes
NABDA	National Biotechnology Development Agency
NACCIMA	National Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mine and Agriculture
NBMA	National Biosafety Management Agency
NBP	National Biotechnology Policy
NERICA	New Rice for Africa
NEWEST	Nitrogen Efficient Water Efficient Salt Tolerant
NHEJ	Non-Homologous End Joining
NRCRI	National Root Crops Research Institute
NVP	National Vaccine Policy
RNAi	RNA interference
SHESTCO	Sheda Science and Technology Complex
SSN	Sequence Specific Nucleases
TALEN	Transcription activator-like Effector Nucleases
VAD	Vitamin A Deficiency
WAAPP	West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program
WHO	World Health Organisation
ZFN	Zinc Finger Nucleases