Ensuring food security is a critical concern both today and for future generations. In Africa, despite widespread agriculture, communities are vulnerable and at risk of starvation due to pests, disease, and environmental conditions damaging harvests. Today – on #WorldFoodSafetyDay2022 – we’re shining a light on Aflatoxin, the ‘silent killer’ threatening people and plants across Africa, and Aflasafe®, the technology developed by @IITA to fight it. 

Aflasafe® exists as the first all-natural crop protection product designed to combat aflatoxins and reduces levels of aflatoxins found in maize, groundnuts and sorghum by 80% to 100%. It forms a key part of UPL’s input package for maize in Ghana and Mali, helping growers keep their crops and those they feed healthy, with added benefits for the environment too.  

In this episode of UPL Insights, our Head of Partnerships for Sustainability in West & Central Africa Florent Clair speaks with Dr. Jane Kamau, Commercialisation & Agribusiness Manager at IITA, and Titilayo Falade PhD, Associate Scientist at IITA to examine Aflatoxin’s serious threat to food safety and discuss how we’re working together as part of our OpenAg purpose to harness this natural technology to improve both crop and human health.