Month: August 2014

The FoodAfrica midterm seminar on food and nutrition security brought together over a hundred people from many different countries in Helsinki in June. In addition to the researchers involved in the FoodAfrica programme representatives from the University of Helsinki, Finnish authorities and non-governmental organisations were present in the interactive event. The seminar gave a broad look at research on food and nutrition security in Africa and raised questions and discussions …

FoodAfrica has started collaborating with the Kenyan Department of Meteorology and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The new co-operation supplements the research done on avoiding mycotoxins by using meteorological data to forecast the risk of mycotoxins in the dairy chain. In Finland a grid-based weather data system developed by the Finnish Meteorological Institute has been applied for monitoring the risk of fumonisins in cereals for more than 10 years. In FoodAfrica …

A group of PhD and MSc students involved in the FoodAfrica programme participated in a training at the University of Helsinki prior to the FoodAfrica midterm seminar. The students came from all the seven work packages, represented many programme countries and scientific fields – from animal and human health to soil micronutrients. The training was organized by the University of Helsinki and it gave the participants a chance to learn …

Lotta Lassila, 35, is working on her Masters’ thesis in FoodAfrica work package 2 focusing on sustainable dairy production in Senegal. She’s one of five students involved in the work package and the only one from Finland. The title of Lotta Lassila’s thesis is Predicting Lactation Records from Test Day Samples in Indigenious and Crossbred Dairy Cattle in Senegal. She studies Animal Breeding at the University of Helsinki and is …