APPEAR Meeting. Kampala, Uganda. 13 - 15 October 2014

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Aflatoxin
Biocontrol in
Africa
Ranajit Bandyopadhyay
IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria
APPEAR Meeting
Kampala, 13-15 October 2014

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• IITA
• USDA
• AATF
• BMGF/USAID
• Doreo Partners
• National institutions
Strong Partnership
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Biocontrol Timeline

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Biocontrol Timeline

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Product Development in Africa
Products ready for registration
Products under testing in farmers’ fields Strain development in progress
Senegal
Burkina
Faso
Ghana
Nigeria
Kenya
Tanzania
Mozambique
Zambia
Product fully registered
Rwanda
Malawi
Burundi
Uganda
The
Gambia

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Biopesticides Registration
USDA-FAS support
• KEPHIS, Kenya: 2010 (regional)
• Ibadan, Nigeria: 2010 (regional)
• Addis Ababa: 2011 (regional)
• PCPB, Kenya: 2012 (national)
• Zanzibar, Tanzania: 2012 (regional)
• Dakar, Senegal: 2012 (national)
• Lilongwe, Malawi: 2013 (regional)
USDA-FAS also supports work on sampling protocols

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Challenges
• Aflatoxin is a hidden problem
• Chemical analysis required
• Awareness is low
• Long incubation for expression of
liver cancer
• Regulations either non-existent or
poorly enforced
• Market does not usually discriminate
• Demonstration of product value
• Lack of biopesticide manufacturers
The value of a
technology on the
shelf is as much
as the cost of the
space it occupies
on the shelf.
Must translate
knowledge into
usable products
and practices to
benefit people
But……

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Key Elements
• Farmer-centric: Farmers’ interest
as the foundation of the action.
Value chain and home-grown food
• Action-oriented: Using practical
methods which involve doing
things to deal with problems, not
just talking about ideas, plans, or
theories
• Innovation platform: An approach
to problem solving through which
actors with a stake in a common
issue or set of issues get together
regularly to address their common
challenges.
Mycored Europe, 28 May, 2013

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Scaling-Out
• Nigeria: AgResults (260,000 t)
• Senegal: Area-wide treatment in
2013; about 8 tons used
• Kenya: Government buy-in;
excellent support
• Zambia: Large-scale efficacy tests
and demonstration of product
value with private sector (12 t)
• Need for business plan,
manufacturing capacity,
marketing and distribution
strategies
• Critical role of PACA and RECs

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Aflasafe Manufacturing Facility
Large-scale: capacity 5 tons/hour
Cost: ~US$1.6 million; Price: $14 - $18/ha
Purpose: Scaling up

11. Building: Approximately 10 m tall; about 20 m wide; 30 m long.
Silos hold about 20 tons each. Hoppers also in coater and packing lines.
Raw Grain
Spore Culture
Room
EndProductStorage
Packing Room
Toilet
End Product Silos
Roasted Grain
Final Cleaners
Roasters
Bagger
Modular Manufacturing Facility
Capacity: 5 tons/day
Cost: ~US$400,000
Purpose: Introduction
Cost: $12 – 15/ha
Labour intensive

12. Current and future biocontrol efforts
• Create a sustainable system (commercialization/public good)
where small holder farmers have access to Aflasafe and are
incentivized to utilize Aflasafe to control aflatoxin levels in
their maize
• Value chain and innovation platforms
• Develop cheaper manufacturing method
• Financing and implementation of manufacturing facility
• Advocacy, awareness, demonstration of product value
• Full registration, licensing and stewardship
• Training and technical back-stopping
• Develop second generation product
• Develop regional strains – fill country gaps in strain collection

14. IITA
Tucson
USDA/ARS
IITA, USDA, & Doreo have Teamed up to Bring
Aflatoxin Prevention to Africa
Made Possible by Many National Partners in Ministries, Industry, and on the Farm
Nigeria
For more information about aflatoxin biocontrol for Africa, check out: www.aflasafe.com