European-African partnership for safe and efficient use of mycotoxin-mitigation strategies in sub-Saharan Africa (MycoSafe-South)

Date
September 2018 to August 2022
Members
Keywords
mycotoxins
food safety
food security
Sub-Saharan Africa
health (animal)
health (human)
Research fields
Agriculture and Food Sciences
Medicine and Health Sciences

Food security remains a major challenge in developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the highest prevalence of undernourishment. Worldwide, cereal-based crops are spoiled by toxigenic moulds and their mycotoxins. Food spoilage by moulds and mycotoxins not only reduces the amount of the available food, and can have deleterious effects for animal & human health, It also adversely affects the ability of Africa to trade with the rest of the world.