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  • Helica Biosystems offers discounts on aflatoxin tests for research in Africa

    Helica Biosytems announced this week that the company will offer analytical kits for aflatoxin detection at deep discounts for scientists in universities and research institutions in all African countries. We had the opportunity to participate at the Partners for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA) meeting in Addis Ababa in November 2014, company leaders learned about…

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  • Aflatoxin costs sub-Saharan Africa $450 million a year in trade

    Busani Bafana of the Inter Press Service writer based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe recently posted a good piece on the costs of aflatoxin – both to health and business –in sub-Saharan Africa. Several other news outlets either ran the IPS article or wrote a similar one of their own after the piece posted on Nov. 20.…

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  • U.S. Borlaug taking applications for Summer Institute on Global Food Security

    The U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security Program will hold its fifth annual Summer Institute on Global Food Security Sunday, June 5 to Saturday, June 18, 2016 on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. This two-week learning program is for graduate students who are interested in developing a holistic understanding of…

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  • WHO report: Children suffer most from foodborne diseases

    A new World Health Organization report paints the most complete picture yet of the worldwide cost of foodborne diseases, which kill 420,000 people a year. Those most at risk are children 5 and under, and the regions most affected are Africa and Southeast Asia, the report found. The report includes estimates of the burden of…

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  • Online dialogue to focus on fertilizer use in Africa

    On Dec. 10 at noon GMT (7 a.m. EST), the Africa South of the Sahara Food Security Portal (https://ssa.foodsecurityportal.org/regional-sub-portal/sub-saharan-africa) will host a virtual dialogue on fertilizer use in Africa. This event will bring together regional experts to engage with online participants in order to share information, discuss progress and constraints, and brainstorm new ideas to…

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  • Nairobi-based fertilizer group merges with AFO

    AMITSA, a regional agricultural input market information system in Africa, has merged with AfricaFertilizer.org (AFO) which launched a new monthly fertilizer information bulletin (Fertinews East and Southern Africa) in collaboration with the East and Southern Africa Trade Platform. The merger will allow AMITSA readers to get the best of information in the fertilizer industry, the…

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  • Proceedings published from aflatoxin-control meeting in Dakar

    The Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA) has documented the proceedings from a two-day workshop in Senegal held to review the progress of aflatoxin-control programs and to continue to work toward aflatoxin control across the continent. “Revamping the Groundnut Value Chain of West Africa through Aflatoxin Mitigation” was held September 1-2, 2015, in Dakar,…

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