Announcement: Roundtable of aflatoxin experts

25th January 2016. Roundtable of aflatoxin experts on “Building a multi-stakeholder approach to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of food and feed”.

PAEPARD is organizing with the support of the Directorate General Santé of the European Commission and the East African Farmer Federation (EAFF), and in collaboration with the Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA) and the African Society of Mycotoxicology (ASM), a roundtable meeting of key aflatoxin experts (not only research experts) on the mitigation of aflatoxin in food and feed in Africa on Monday 25/01/2015 in Brussels (by invitation only).
This is a follow up to the PAEPARD policy brief on the aflatoxin contamination of food and feed in Africa presented during the DEVCo Info Lunch conference in Brussels on 26th October 2015.

• Date: Monday 25th January 2016: 9h30-17h30
• Venue: Albert Borschette Conference Center
  (36 rue Froissart, Metro station “Schuman” lines 1 and 5)
• Meeting Room: 5b 
• Meeting title: Management of Aflatoxin in Africa: working group on aflatoxin
• Organiser: PAEPARD

Objectives of the Roundtable meeting:

• Assessing the real needs of Africa, expressed by various stakeholders.
• Assessing the current expertise from African and European organisations on aflatoxin issues relevant to Africa, and identify new research and ICT (Information and communication technology) collaboration on aflatoxin mitigation between Africa and Europe and synergies with ongoing or future aflatoxin research in Africa (China, USA, Germany …). 1
• Linking together the most competent partners around the funding and knowledge bases for implementing aflatoxin contamination mitigation on a large scale in Africa.

Representatives of DG DevCo, DG Research, DG Agriculture, DG Trade and DG Health will attend the Roundtable.

The format of this meeting will include a morning session with presentations and discussions. The afternoon session will be organized in three consecutive panels on pre-harvest mitigation, post-harvest technologies, and education and awareness creation. The third and last session will discuss upcoming funding opportunities and an action plan for the way forward.

10:00  The role of the Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA)

10:30  Recommendations from the 1st African Symposium on Mycotoxicology
Brad Flett – Agricultural Research Council – Grain Crops Institute, Potchefstroom, RSA

11:00  Twenty years research on aflatoxin in Europe: what benefits for Africa?

Antonio Logrieco, Istituto Scienze delle Produzioni Alimentari (ISPA), Bari, Italy

(coordinator of the Mycokey project under H2020- SFS-13-2015 call on Biological contamination of crops and the food chain: A contribution to a long-term collaboration with China on food safety).

11:30   The impact of hand shelling in Malawi

Andrew Emmott, Twin&Twin Trading, Senior Associate (Nuts), London, UK.

12:00  Respondents: Below experts will react to the presentations in a panel discussion. The

PPTs below will not be presented but serve as background for the participants

Sarah De Saeger (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University) The expertise of Mycotox at the laboratory of Food Analysis

Monica Olsen (National Food Agency of Sweden) Risk Benefit Assessment 

Monique Denijs (WUR, The Netherlands) Wageningen ur approach to aflatoxin

Catherine Brabet (CIRAD, France) Expertise of CIRAD-UMR Qualisud for aflatoxin control in Africa

Ferenc Bagi, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (member of the MyToolBox project under H2020- SFS-13-2015 call as well). Experiences about aflatoxins in Serbia: what could be relevant for Africa?

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break and networking (self-service cafeteria, same floor of the building)

Session 2: Actions

14:00  Chair person: Lynn Brown (Global Donor Platform for Rural Development)

Panel discussions: Presentations in 3 consecutive panels (pitching type of panel without slide show).

14:15  Panel discussion on pre-harvest mitigation:

Limbikani Matumba (LUNUAR, Malawi) Stemming Aflatoxin pre- and post-harvest waste in the groundnut value chain (title tbc)

Benoit Gnonlonfin (INRAB, Benin) Crops drying to a safe moisture content and handling: challenges facing African countries.

Mr. Adebowale (Debo) Akande (tbc) (Manager of the AgResults Aflasafe Pilot funded by the Governments of Australia, Canada, U.K. and USA and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through The World Bank and Deloitte. A case for aflasafe

Bruno Schuler (GIZ Germany) African Cashew initiative

15:00  Panel discussion on post-harvest technologies:

Charles Nkonge (Kenya) Aflatoxin in maize

Erastus Kang’ethe (EAFF) on Aflatoxin in milk

Loveness K. Nyanga (University of Zimbabwe/Action contre la faim) Postharvest management technologies for reducingaflatoxin contamination in maize grain and exposure to humans in Zimbabwe

Sophie Walker (ACDI/VOCA) AflaSTOP: Storage and drying for aflatoxin prevention project

15:45  Panel discussion on Education and awareness creation:

Paul Van Mele (Agro Insight) Quality training videos to be developed withfarmers who are trained in aflatoxin prevention and management 

Bruno Tran (NRI, UK) African postharvest losses information system (APHLIS)

Kouadio James (University Félix Houphouet-Boigny, Abidjan – Côte d’Ivoire) Toxicologie et hygiène alimentaire (title tbc)

Daniel Gad (Exporter and entrepreneur in horticulture – Ethiopia) The importance of consumer awareness on the risks of aflatoxin contamination

Hailemichael Desmae Management of aflatoxin contamination in groundnut – ICRISAT Approach (International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics -West & Central Africa, Bamako, Mali)

Session 3: Funding

16:30   Panel discussion on Funding opportunities:

       Marc Duponcel (DG Agriculture H5) H2020 priority setting, themes and the current selection process (cfr. multi stakeholder consortia)

Francois Stepman (PAEPARD) The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions and the Apps4aflatoxin H2020 proposal

Wolfgang Buechs (Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants – Julius-Kuehn-Institute) AflaNET project: Minimization of aflatoxin contamination in the value chain

17:00 Recommendations and action plan: the recommendations and commitments to an action plan from this meeting will be presented during the panel session 3 of the ARCH Pre-event (on 26/01) to the DG-AGRI Agricultural Research and Innovation Conference (on 27-28/01).

17:45 – 18:00       Conclusion and closure of the Roundtable meeting.

PPT business cards

Ida Skaar (Norwegian Veterinary Institute Section of Mycology) NVI`s interests and available expertise

BrunoSchuler (GIZ Germany) Rapid Loss Appraisal Tool (RLAT)

Tina Ajdic and Aida Axelsson-Bakri (ADS Brussels) ADS Insight & aflatoxins

Resources:

• Programme (3 pages)
• Background note (11 pages)
• List of participants (2 pages) 
• PAEPARD P O L I C Y B R I E F N °1 The role of multi-stakeholder partnerships between Africa and Europe exemplified by the issue of aflatoxin contamination of food and feed.

October 2015 (8 pages)

• CTA aflatoxin poster

Related PAEPARD blog posts on aflatoxin
See: http://paepard.blogspot.be/search/label/Aflatoxin (61 blog posts)

Source: PAEPARD FEED