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Le Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)<\/a> has announced IITA<\/a> amongst the Growth Grand finalists to be awarded $100,000 for its project on integrating Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) as bio-inoculants to boost banana production in the East African Highlands. The announcement was published in a press release<\/a> on the IFT website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award is part of the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge<\/a>\u2014an initiative seeking to inspire and support passionate, creative, diverse, and multidisciplinary teams to create game-changing innovations that will help transform the food system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The IFT award is for IITA’s project on integrating AMF as bio-inoculants to boost banana production in the East African Highlands.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe submitted ideas for all award categories are very innovative with high impact potential to create a more safe, nutritious, sustainable, and equitable food system, resulting in trusted food that is affordable and accessible to consumers,\u201d says Seeding The Future Foundation<\/a> Founder Bernhard van Lengerich in the press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project aims to introduce locally isolated AMF species into banana-based production systems and catalyze the development of a commercially sustainable and scalable process for its production and distribution to smallholder farmers in Eastern Africa for a sustainable banana food system for food security and nutrition. The project is a multidisciplinary consortium from Africa and the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe goal of this intervention is to have a commercially sustainable distribution of AMF primed micro-propagated banana plantlets. The investment in AMF will be offset by many benefits, both short- and long-term benefits that are highly reliant on each other, which will be tested throughout the project,\u201d says Manoj Kaushal<\/a>, a Systems Agronomist at IITA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project path to scalability and economic feasibility is a multi-stage process through the private sector with capacity building and support from international donors\/NGO partners and the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeding The Future Foundation funds the Challenge, which focuses on empowering transdisciplinary teams to develop scalable and high-impact innovations that reside at the intersection of three domains: safe and nutritious food for a healthy diet; sustainably produced; and accessible, appealing, affordable, and trusted by consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winners of the Challenge will be announced in January 2022.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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