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JOURNAL OF STORED PRODUCTS RESEARCH
Volume 82, Issue -, Pages 31-39Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspr.2019.03.001
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Aflatoxin; Post-harvest technologies; RCT; Maize; Kenya
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- Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland through the FoodAfrica Programme
- CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenge Explorations Award [OPP1112728]
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1112728] Funding Source: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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We assess the impact of a package of post-harvest technologies on aflatoxin contamination of maize through a randomized trial in rural Kenya. Some elements of this package (training and provision of plastic sheets for sun-drying) were provided free of charge to all participants in treatment villages and were widely adopted. Others (a mobile drying service and hermetic storage bags) were provided free to a subset of randomly selected farmers in treatment villages while others had to pay. Overall, the intervention reduced aflatoxin contamination by over 50%. Most of this reduction appears to be due training and the use of drying sheets, the lowest-cost of all the technologies offered. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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