BECA – Biosciences East and Central Africa

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  BECA’s mission is to mobilize bioscience for Africa’s development, by providing a center for excellence in agricultural biosciences. This enables research, capacity building and product incubation, conducted by scientists in Africa and for Africa, and empowers African institutions to harness innovations for regional impact.

  BECA works to contribute towards improving the livelihoods of millions of resource poor people in Africa, through the use of bioscience-based technologies to improve agricultural productivity, increase incomes and improve food and nutritional security.

  Here you will find a presentation from the program leader Appollinaire Djikeng, and two scientific presentations by Sita Ghimire and Jagger Harvey.

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    The BecA-ILRI Hub – Mobilizing Biosciences for Africa’s Development Appolinaire Djikeng , Director of the BecA-ILRI Hub, gives an insight into strategy.

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    Climate-smart Brachiaria Program Sita Ghimire on how livestock form livelihood of small holder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

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    Aflatoxins: a food security threat across the crop-livestock interface Jagger Harvey speaks about aflatoxins: Toxic fungal metabolites, 25% global food supply contaminated (FAO), ~4.5 billion people chronically exposed (WHO)

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