Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter)
Contact Information
Name: Joseph Howell
Telephone: 225-578-8113
Email: jhowell@agcenter.lsu.edu>
Address: 118 Knapp Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70893
The Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter) will serve as the Lead Institution for the project. The LSU AgCenter provides off-campus educational programs that disseminate technological, economic and management information to agribusinesses and rural and urban communities and conducts health, food safety, youth and leadership programs throughout the state.
The LSU AgCenter has been in the forefront in international development in a number of countries over the past 40 years. The LSU AgCenter has implemented projects funded by USAID, the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Latin America/the Caribbean, in Asia and in Africa (Sierra Leone, Mali, Senegal, Zaire, Ethiopia and Liberia). The LSU AgCenter has worked well with both public and private-sector institutions in its overseas programs. A recent example is the industry-wide analysis of the use of rice byproducts for energy in China, Thailand, Italy and Vietnam. Currently, the LSU AgCenter is working to bring together state institutions and private agribusinesses to assist private farmers in Ukraine. In a program in East Java, the LSU AgCenter is working with the private-sector beef cattle industry to effect genetic improvement programs. These technical assistance programs have emphasized technology transfer, human capacity building and the ability to sustain.
Many LSU AgCenter faculty members have considerable international contacts. These resources will form the basis for all technical inputs for the PFID-MSP effort. Specifically, faculty expertise will be used to define solution strategies and assist in the identification and implementation of those strategies to address short-term needs of the food industry in the region.
Faculty in several departments including Food Science, Animal Science, Horticulture, Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, and the Extension Service at the LSU AgCenter have and continue to implement a number of research, education and community development programs for the food industry in Louisiana. A snapshot of research programs to minimize food consumption risks includes alternative food packaging, the pasteurization of raw in-shell oysters and the implementation of a rapid microbial detection laboratory. LSU AgCenter scientists conduct research for agencies, private-sector companies and trade groups in Louisiana. More than 35 companies ranging from small Louisiana firms to large multi-national companies have benefited from this work.
Contact Information
Name: William I. Hudson
Telephone: 703-373-4300
E-mail: bhudson@iarw.org
Address: 1500 King St., Suite 201, Alexandria, VA 22314
The World Food Logistics Organization (WFLO) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the proper handling and storage of perishable products and development of systems and best practices for the safe, efficient and reliable movement of food to the people of the world. The WFLO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, is supported by a scientific advisory council comprised of leading food scientists from around the world.
WFLO supports a wide variety of research in food science and has funded 140 research projects on food packaging, tempering parameters, temperature control during transportation, mobility threshold temperatures, refrigeration technology and shelf life determination, as well as a computer program for determining freezing times. WFLO also offers a variety of educational programs, including annual four-day training institutes in Oklahoma and Belgium.
WFLO publishes the Commodity Storage Manual (CSM), Successful Refrigerated Warehousing, HACCP Guidelines and other publications. The CSM is considered by many to be the Bible of the food distribution industry and contains critical information on the handling and storage of more than 200 food products. Questions that are not specifically addressed in the CSM can be referred to a WFLO-affiliated food scientist specializing in the particular commodity. WFLO members have special expertise in the safe and proper handling and storage of foods throughout what is now called “the cold chain.” WFLO offers an education and consultancy program to assist government agencies, companies and industries in implementing safe and improved food distribution. WFLO is actively engaged in translating primary components of their resource library, particularly chapters of the CSM and the textbook “Successful Refrigerated Warehousing,” into three foreign languages.
WFLO has focused its efforts in emerging markets to conduct a series of technical seminars promoting enhanced cold chain temperature management systems. The seminars are followed by a comprehensive technical assistance mission, whereby industry experts work one-on-one with selected companies and recommend low-cost and no-cost methods for improvement. The final phase of the program involves returning to the market to evaluate the impact of the recommendations and make “mid-course corrections” to the strategic action plan. Additionally, WFLO plays a key role in organizing a regional or national Cold Chain Association, tapping the local companies with a committed attitude towards enhancing the integrated cold chain and improving communication between industry sectors. To date, the WFLO has promoted such associations in China, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Dominican Republic, South Africa and Palestine.
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Schaffer Associates International Ltd. (SAIL)
Contact Information
Name: Nigel Williams, Brett Craig
Telephone: 225-343-9262
Fax: 225-343-0420
Email: nigel@fcschaffer.com , bcraig@fcschaffer.com
Address: 1020 Florida Blvd. Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Schaffer Associates International Ltd. (SAIL) specializes in project development, financing and implementation; trade and investment advisory services; NEPAD project review and analysis; and capacity building. It has received two awards for its accomplishments in Africa: the U.S. Department of State – Corporate Excellence Award and the Corporate Council on Africa Citizenship Award.
Such accomplishments in trade and development outreach include:
1. Trade promotion, regionally and in the United States, supporting the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade bill. Examples include identification of markets and suppliers for Ivorian companies processing agricultural products.
2. Representation in trade shows and orientation visits to compare and contrast African enterprises’ practices with those in similar industries in the United States.
3. Attracting investors through feasibility studies and project or privatization assessments. Such services have been provided for sugar enterprises in Sudan, Ethiopia, Moçambique and Kenya, as well as for the privatization of entire sectors.
4. Packaging the debt and equity structure of a large (with a workforce of 5,000) agro-industrial project in Mali that will encompass sugar and other food and value-added products.
The SAIL actively seeks to facilitate closer business relations between the United States and the region. It is involved with the U.S. Trade and Development Program to assist NEPAD with its infrastructure projects.
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University of Stellenbosch (SUN)
Contact Information
Name: Louw Hoffman
Telephone: 27-21-808-4747
Email: lch@sun.ac.za
Address: DF Malan Building Office 1083 Merriman Street, Stellenbosch, 7600, Republic of South Africa (RSA)
The University of Stellenbosch (SUN) is an internationally recognized university with about 150 departments in 10 faculties and more than 40 research and other institutions. A century-long tradition of quality teaching and research has ensured Stellenbosch University’s place among the finest academic institutions in Africa.
The departments of Animal Sciences and Food Science in the Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences at the University of Stellenbosch are participating in PFID-MSP as an in-country partner of the LSU AgCenter. The links that these two departments at SUN have with the food, and specifically the meat industries within South Africa, will be of great value to this alliance. SUN also has links with Namibia and other neighboring African countries.
The SUN departments foresee that they will form an alliance with the LSU AgCenter, WFLO and the local meat and seafood processors to assist those processors by enhancing their awareness of the various issues pertaining to food safety. Where necessary, the alliance will also help with capacity building and, where possible, assist with policy development.
This alliance will take the form of a Post-harvest Technology Center (PTC) situated at SU. This PTC will then provide scientific support and training to the industry, with the ultimate goal of improving its products (animal or fish-based products in all their forms), either for local consumption or export, thereby improving the profitability of the industries.
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University of Namibia
Contact Information
Name: Stephen C. Barrion
Telephone: 264-61-206-3890 ext 4060
Fax: 264-61-206-3013
Email: sbarrion@unam.na
Address: Department of Food Science and Technology Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR), University of Namibia Private Bag 13301 Windhoek Namibia
The University of Namibia was established by an act of Parliament on August 31, 1992, as recommended by a Commission on Higher Education. In accordance with the National Development Plan (NDP1), and indeed its motto: "Education, Service and Development," the university's programmes are designed to meet national human resources requirements through quality teaching, research, consultancy and community services.
The Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) of the University of Namibia has five departments: Agricultural Economics and Extension, Animal Science, Crop Science, Food Science and Technology and Natural Resources and Conservation. The main mission of the faculty is to promote sustainable agriculture and natural resource development and management in Namibia through teaching, research and extension services to communal and commercial farming communities.
The Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of Namibia is mandated and entrusted with the responsibility of providing education and training at the B.Sc. level to those who wish to major in the field of food science and technology (FANR Annual Report, 2003). The vision of the Department of Food Science and Technology within the broader framework of the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources is to promote the use of the raw materials by value addition and processing and thereby contribute to food security. The objectives of the department are to provide education and training, to conduct research on food which has a direct bearing on improving the livelihood of the community, to provide community service to those who are in need of food processing technology and to provide advisory and consultancy services to the private, government and international organizations.
The department has established relationships with various food industries such as the Namibia Beverages and Hartlief where students go for their internship. It has received research grants to execute the programmes and has teaching and research facilities to carry out its functions. The department has equipment mainly in the analytical field. The staff members include a diary technologist, three food microbiologists, a food engineer and one food analyst/chemist. The Department of Food Science and Technology has been consulting with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension in providing specialized discussions and input in the project planning, administration, communications and monitoring of projects with which it has been involved. For example, the combined effort of the two departments for the “Nutribusiness project” undertaken with Pennsylvania State University (PSU). Other U.S. partners that the faculty has been involved with in projects include: Cornell University, Ohio State University, the Ford Foundation and a few others.
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM)
Contact Information
Name: Louis Augusto Mutomene Pelembe, Ph.D.
Telephone: 258-82-486421
Fax: 258-1-475318
E-mail: louispelembe@yahoo.com
Address: Food Technology & Biotechnology Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Av. De Moç, km-1.5, P. O. Box 257, Maputo, Mozambique
Name: Adelina da Conceição Machado
Telephone: 258-82-300144
Fax: 258-1-475318
Email: adelm966@tvcabo.co.mz
Address: Food Hygiene and Food Technology Section, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Av. De Moçambique km-1.7, P. O. Box 257, Maputo, Mozambique
The Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM, or Eduardo Mondlane University) is the largest and oldest public university in Moçambique. It was founded in 1962.
The faculties of engineering and veterinary sciences are part of the 11 academic units of The Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM).
The Food Technology & Biotechnology Section is one of the research units of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering. Much research done in the Department of Chemical is within this section.
The Food Technology & Biotechnology Section is involved in local, regional and international research projects funded by various donors, including USAID (USA), Sida/Sarec (Sweden) and the European Union (EU).
At the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, the research in food is conducted within the Food Hygiene and Food Technology Section.
Both the Food Technology & Biotechnology Section of the Faculty of Engineering and the Food Hygiene and Food Technology of the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences of the UEM have targeted their research/extension work on areas such as Food Quality and Safety Management; Food and Nutrition Security; Food Processing; Value-added Food Technologies; Prevention of quantitative and qualitative losses and advice appropriate technologies for Food Protection measures; HACCP and ISO 9000 implementation; Commercialization and Improvement of the quality and packaging of indigenous/traditional foods, Technical and Feasibility studies, rational utilization of Natural Resources, etc.
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ZATAC Limited
Contact Information
Name: Likando Mukumbuta
Telephone: 260-1-263-512/260-1-263-529/260-1-263-537
Email: Likando_Mukumbuta@dai.com
Address: ZATAC Limited Private Bag 207 Woodlands Plot 2066 Gizenga Road, Woodlands, Lusaka, Zambia
ZATAC Limited was founded with the mandate to help commercialize Zambia’s smallholder production and processing in order to increase income, improve the quality of life of Zambians and contribute to broad-based economic growth. ZATAC’s smallholder commercialization strategy promotes forging secure alliances between commercial agribusinesses and rural enterprises (primarily owned and operated by smallholders) that buy and/or sell to small-scale producers and processors so as to foster demand, leverage partnerships and, in the process, commercialize smallholder production. In pursuing this mission, ZATAC maintains a facilitative role as Zambian smallholder producers and processors learn to access higher value nontraditional markets.
ZATAC Ltd believes that its strategy can contribute significantly to building a resilient local middle class capable of boosting enterprise and expanding investment in the MSP food industries. Since inception, ZATAC has pursued a demand-driven and client-focused approach so that services and the working relationship itself are valued by the clients as they achieve their own goals. ZATAC brings the following expertise and service-product-package as tools for the realization of our vision. The technical services that ZATAC is providing are: Business Development Services, Market Linkages, Technical Assistance & Business Advisory Services and Financial Services & Linkages.
ZATAC Ltd. activities are focused on agriculture, including livestock, value-added agriculture/agribusiness and natural resources, primarily non-timber forest products. Food value-chains ZATAC is currently with include honey, coffee, fresh vegetables for local and export markets, paprika, milk, pork products and goat marketing. ZATAC Ltd’s value-chain approach entails actively addressing with all aspects of these food commodities including, food safety, quality and security compliance institutional support; processing plant-based technical assistance, information support and policy advocacy as well as cold chain assessments. The PFID will significantly strengthen ZATAC Ltd’s capacity to provide /facilitate support in these critical areas to the benefit of the Zambian economy.
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