Institutional Capacity Strengthening and Awareness Creation The Partnership supports the BecA-ILRI Hub in targeting organisations and countries that are underrepresented as hub users. Collaborative Research Projects AusAID supports research projects under the BecA-CSIRO Partnership, four of which focus on Food and Nutritional Security and three on Animal Health. Table 1 summarises the key features of these projects. 1. Key Features of AusAID-Supported CSIRO-BecA Projects Name Development Main lines of Country Collaborators rationale bioscience and focus other enquiry Aflatoxin: Health and income Determine genetic and Lead BecA Establishing a benefits from diversity. Advance Tanzania Key Regional Mycotoxin improved measurement tools. collaborators: Analytical Platform measurement and Modeling Kenya Agricultural and its Application in strategies to reduce occurrence and risk Research Institute Reducing Aflatoxin Aflatoxin mapping. (KARI); Contamination of contamination in Agricultural Kenyan and maize Research Institute, Tanzanian Maize Tanzania (ARI); Open University of Tanzania; Cornell University; University of Queensland – QAAFI; CSIRO Cavies: Harnessing Improved Genetic Cameroon, Lead Group: husbandry of domestic livelihoods and characterisation. DRC BecA cavies for alternative nutrition through Improve husbandry Key and rapid access to improved breeds, and forage. collaborators: food and income in production and University of Cameroon and the marketing Dschang, Democratic Republic Cameroon; CIAT; of the Congo Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), DRC Mushrooms: Improved nutrition Genetic diversity Burundi, Lead Institution: Domestication of wild and livelihoods and characterisation University of edible mushroom through promotion of wild, edible Tanzania species in Eastern of mushrooms as a mushrooms: quality, Key Africa potential source of taste, ease of collaborators: micronutrients. propagation, market Kenya Industrial potential Research and Development Institute (KIRDI); University of Burundi; CSIRO Amaranth: Improve and Genetic and Kenya Lead Institution: Nutritional livelihoods of poor nutritional Tanzania Jomo Kenyatta characterisation and people through characterisation of University of value addition of promotion of a varieties and Agriculture and amaranth vegetable traditional crop as a processed products. Technology and grain by low cost source of Market development Key sustainable and for new products. collaborators: processing: towards compounds. Sokoine University poverty reduction, of Agriculture; food and nutrition AVRDC World – security in East Africa Vegetable Centre; CSIRO
Institutional Capacity Strengthening and Awareness Creation The Partnership supports the BecA-ILRI Hub in targeting organisations and countries that are underrepresented as hub users. Collaborative Research Projects AusAID supports research projects under the BecA-CSIRO Partnership, four of which focus on Food and Nutritional Security and three on Animal Health. Table 1 summarises the key features of these projects. 1. Key Features of AusAID-Supported CSIRO-BecA Projects Name Development rationale Main lines of bioscience and other enquiry Country focus Collaborators Aflatoxin: Establishing a Regional Mycotoxin Analytical Platform and its Application in Reducing Aflatoxin Contamination of Kenyan and Tanzanian Maize Health and income benefits from improved measurement and strategies to reduce Aflatoxin contamination in maize Determine genetic diversity. Advance measurement tools. Modeling occurrence and risk mapping. and Tanzania Lead BecA Key collaborators: Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI); Agricultural Research Institute, Tanzania (ARI); Open University of Tanzania; Cornell University; University of Queensland – QAAFI; CSIRO Cavies: Harnessing husbandry of domestic cavies for alternative and rapid access to food and income in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo Improved livelihoods and nutrition through improved breeds, production and marketing Genetic characterisation. Improve husbandry and forage. Cameroon, DRC Lead Group: BecA Key collaborators: University of Dschang, Cameroon; CIAT; Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), DRC Mushrooms: Domestication of wild edible mushroom species in Eastern Africa Improved nutrition and livelihoods through promotion of mushrooms as a potential source of micronutrients. Genetic diversity and characterisation of wild, edible mushrooms: quality, taste, ease of propagation, market potential Burundi, Tanzania Lead Institution: University of Key collaborators: Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI); University of Burundi; CSIRO Amaranth: Nutritional characterisation and value addition of amaranth vegetable and grain by low cost sustainable processing: towards poverty reduction, food and nutrition security in East Africa Improve and livelihoods of poor people through promotion of a traditional crop as a source of and compounds. Genetic and nutritional characterisation of varieties and processed products. Market development for new products. Kenya Tanzania Lead Institution: Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Key collaborators: Sokoine University of Agriculture; AVRDC – World Vegetable Centre; CSIRO
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