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Newsletter December 2024: 🔬 UP-RISE PhD Community 🌐 World Food Safety Day 📢 Open Call for Food Processors

Welcome to the second newsletter of UP-RISE! We are thrilled to introduce the next generation of food safety leaders shaping Africa’s future: 11 exceptional PhD students driving innovative solutions in food safety and sustainable development. This edition also features an open call for traditional fermented food processors and processor groups.

World Food Day 2024: Get to know Julia Virol, PhD at Wageningen University (Netherlands)

Meet the future leaders and food safety ambassadors for Africa! This campaign will introduce the 11 researchers from the UP-RISE PhD Community through a series of articles.

World Food Day 2024: Get to know Vukosi Edwin, PhD at University of Johannesburg (South Africa)

Meet the future leaders and food safety ambassadors for Africa! This campaign will introduce the 11 researchers from the UP-RISE PhD Community through a series of articles.

World Food Day 2024: Get to know Edson Coffi, PhD at Université Abomey-Calavi (Benin)

Meet the future leaders and food safety ambassadors for Africa! This campaign will introduce the 11 researchers from the UP-RISE PhD Community through a series of articles.

World Food Day 2024: Get to know Kgoale Sebotse Potlako, PhD at University of Johannesburg (South Africa)

Meet the future leaders and food safety ambassadors for Africa! This campaign will introduce the 11 researchers from the UP-RISE PhD Community through a series of articles.

A glimpse into crop sampling in Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, and South Africa

In recent months, sorghum, millet, and maize crops have been sampled in the five target countries at harvest and post-harvest stages (during storage). Specialised protocols were developed for this process. The next phase involves mycotoxins and fungal analysis.

World Food Day 2024: Get to know Kevin Omwomo, PhD at Federal University of Technology Minna (Nigeria)

Meet the future leaders and food safety ambassadors for Africa! This campaign will introduce the 11 researchers from the UP-RISE PhD Community through a series of articles.

World Food Day 2024: Get to know Truphosa Amakhobe, PhD student at University of Nairobi (Kenya)

Meet the future leaders and food safety ambassadors for Africa! This campaign will introduce the 11 researchers from the UP-RISE PhD Community through a series of articles.

World Food Day 2024: Get to know Charles Yeo, PhD student at University of Nangui Abrogoua (Côte d’Ivoire)

Meet the future leaders and food safety ambassadors for Africa! This campaign will introduce the 11 researchers from the UP-RISE PhD Community through a series of articles.

World Food Day 2024: Get to know Mirabelle Feliho, PhD student at Université Abomey-Calavi (Benin)

Meet the future leaders and food safety ambassadors for Africa! This campaign will introduce the 11 researchers from the UP-RISE PhD Community through a series of articles.

World Food Day 2024: Get to know Mohammed Mahdi, PhD at Wageningen University (Netherlands)

Meet the future leaders and food safety ambassadors for Africa! This campaign will introduce the 11 researchers from the UP-RISE PhD Community through a series of articles.

World Food Day 2024: Get to know Lungani Nyathi, a PhD student at the University of Johannesburg!

Meet the future leaders and food safety ambassadors for Africa! This campaign will introduce the 11 researchers from the UP-RISE PhD Community through a series of articles.

Involving third parties in the UP-RISE Project

UP-RISE Open call for fermented food processors (akpan for Benin, coco baca for Ivory Coast, maziwa mala for Kenya, kunun zaki for Nigeria, umqombothi for South Africa).

World Food Safety Day 2024: Bridging gaps in Africa’s informal sector webinar

The Africa Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and the African Union Commission’s Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA), in collaboration with the Food Safety for Africa (FS4Africa) and UP-RISE projects funded by the European Union, organised the webinar entitled Bridging gaps in Africa’s informal sector.

World Food Safety Day 2024: Did You Know campaign

Did you know that mycotoxins are harmful compounds produced by certain moulds that can develop on various agricultural commodities such as maize, sorghum, millet and peanuts, considered as the staple foods of many African countries? Did you know that mycotoxins can occur at various stages of the food production, from cultivation to consumption, including production, storage, and distribution stages? Did you know that food fermentation could help mycotoxin detoxification?

Newsletter June 2024: Get to know UP-RISE • World Food Safety Day

Welcome to the First Edition of the UP-RISE Newsletter! Discover the EU-AU Partnership for Resilient, Inclusive, and Safe Food Systems for Everyone—a transformative initiative bringing together a consortium of partners to achieve resilient, inclusive, and safe food systems.

CIRAD delegation visited Université Nangui-Abrogoua (UNA) in Abidjan

The purpose of this mission was to assist UNA colleagues in identifying key actors in the value chain of Coco Baca and to gain a better understanding of the organisation and practices related to food safety within this value chain.

Meet the Consortium Partners

UP-RISE consortium is built up on 14 international partners bringing together an interdisciplinary approach and a well-framed gender dimension to maximise the impact. Food safety experts, scientists, researchers, agro-economists, biologists, pharmacists, policymakers, food regulators, communicators and mentors involved in the project explain what UP-RISE is.

UGent Master students assisting the University of Johannesburg to take the first UP-RISE samples of sorghum

UGent Master students, Ine Van Wesemael and Silke Marynissen, together with UPRISE PhD student Lungani Nyathi and University of Johannesburg (UJ) staff, took the first UP-RISE samples of sorghum.

UP-RISE project kick-starts to strengthen African Food Safety Systems

Ghent University will lead the European Union (EU) funded project for the next four years. The consortium is built up on 14 international partners bringing together an interdisciplinary approach and a well-framed gender dimension to maximize the impact.

UP-RISE: EU-AU Partnership for Resilient, Inclusive and Safe food systems for Everyone

UP-RISE is an international project providing groundbreaking knowledge to understand mycotoxin contamination and to deliver solutions in Africa, strengthening African Food Safety Systems.