Research for a food secure Africa Capacity and Acon for Aflatoxin Reducon in Eastern Africa (CAAREA): • Filling the informaon gaps that exists on the pathogen, toxin prevalence and levels of maize resistance to fungal and aflatoxin accumulaon pre-harvest. • Developing novel diagnoscs to detect the toxin in the laboratory, in the field and at the mill • Donducng modelling to produce risk maps Kenya, Tanzania Harnessing genec diversity for improved goat producvity • Studying the goat diversity in Cameroon and Ethiopia to enable beer breeding pracces. • Developing ICT-based tools to support management throughout the producon chain. Cameroon, Ethiopia New blast-proof rice for Africans • Idenfy sources of resistance to rice blast and breeding rice blast resistance genes into variees that are specifically adapted to thrive in African countries, to produce durably resistant rice variees. Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania Adding nutrion to African diets through low cost sustainable processing of amaranth • Addressing the main challenges to producon, processing and markeng of amaranth in order to increase its consumpon in eastern Africa. Kenya, Tanzania Diagnoscs, surveillance, epidemiology and control of African swine fever • Understanding the prevalence and spread of the ASF virus across countries in eastern Africa. • Developing a rapid ASF diagnoscs mobile field laboratory • Understanding of the role of pig management in disease transmission in the study regions Kenya, Uganda Healthy crops and livestock - tools to detect and address disease • Development of appropriate rapid diagnosc tools which can be used to detect and address crical crop and livestock diseases which are posing a significant threat to food security in the region. for screening of “clean” planng materials and detecng livestock diseases are being developed for use in naonal programs and private laboratories in the region including Capripoxviruses and Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia (CCPP); passion fruit diseases; yam diseases; garlic diseases; rice bacterial diseases • Understanding the landscape of viruses in mixed cropping system African smallholder farms: plant virome ecology and its implicaons for food security in the face of climate change Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania Developing a pan African strategy for the control of Peste de Pete Ruminant(PPR) • Progressing the thermo-stabilisaon of the exisng PPR vaccine. • Field tesng and deployment strategies for successful scale out. Kenya, Sudan, Uganda Providing proof of concept for the development of an inacvated vaccine for Contagious Bovine Pleuro Pneumonia (CBPP) • Developing improved CBPP vaccine delivery via the respiratory tract (inhaler). Kenya Clean and resistant planng materials • Developing ssue culture methods for producon of disease-free, high-performing, farmer-preferred variees of crops of importance to African food, nutrional and medicinal security. • Ensuring planng materials produced are clean by developing tools to detect the pathogens causing these diseases. Burundi, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda Exploring opportunies for domescaon of wild edible mushroom species in eastern Africa • Domescaon of wild mushrooms to produce year-round food with key nutrients and increase household incomes for small holder farmers. Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania Leaving a bad taste in aphids’ mouths • Surveying bean growing areas in three disnct ecological zones within Uganda to look at how virus infecon shapes the distribuon of aphids under natural condions. • Using a molecular analyses, mathemacal models and field observaons to idenfy how to select and deploy plants that could act as decoys for aphids by aracng them. Uganda Climate Change and Livestock Producvity • Contribung to food and feed security and poverty reducon in East Africa through climate-smart Brachiaria grasses and to facilitate germplasm transfer and capacity building in improved tropical forage technology, natural resource management and adaptaon and migaon of climate change. Kenya, Rwanda Improving protein and household income through beer husbandry of domesc cavy • Conducng baseline studies that are providing key informaon on cavy farming pracces and genec diversity studies to contribute to improved cavy producon, potenally improving the nutrion and income for smallholder farmers in Cameroon and DRC Cameroon, Democrac Republic of Congo Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub research activities This document is licensed for use under a Creave Commons Aribuon-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License May 2013 INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE AUSTRALIA Funded by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) through the partnership with Australia’s national science agency, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) SWEDEN Funded by the Swedish government through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) BBSRC Funded through a grant awarded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) under the Sustainable Crop Production Research for International Development programme, a joint multi-national initiative of BBSRC and the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID), together with (through a grant awarded to BBSRC) the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), and the Department of Biotechnology of India’s Ministry of Science and Technology Funding sources Partnering with OVER 40 research instuons, universies, government ministries, regional agencies and NGOs across 16 COUNTRIES in Africa, Australia, Europe and USA hub.africabiosciences.org