**Meet the editors**

P.B. Njobeh is an associate professor and deputy head of the Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology and heads the Mycotoxin Unit of the University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa, with 21 postgraduates and postdoctoral fellows currently under his supervision. His research projects fall within the area of food safety, with an emphasis on mycotoxins and fungi. He

has established research collaborations with various institutions nationally and internationally and is part of the MYTOX\_SOUTH consortium, a partnership to improve food security and safety through mitigation of mycotoxins at a global level with Ghent University, Belgium, as leading partner. He is equally part of the iZindaba Zokudla, a multistakeholder program hosted at UJ aimed at creating opportunities for urban agriculture in a sustainable food system and engaging with the communities in Johannesburg and its environs on food-related issues. He also works as consultant/expert in the African Union Inter-Bureau on Animal Resources/African Union's projects, especially on food safety. He is a member of the Joint (FAO/ WHO) Expert Committee on Food Additives, which is responsible for delivering scientific advice on the establishment of global food safety standards of Codex Alimentarius and others. Prof. Njobeh is a reviewer of more than 14 scientific journals, several funding applications for the National Research Foundation (NRF), Medical Research Council of South Africa and Research Foundation-Flanders, Belgium, an editorial board member of Mycotoxin Research, and an external examiner of theses and dissertations from other universities. He has more than 80 publications as book chapters and journal and conference papers. He is a reviewer for many journals and funding bodies, with a Google Scholar H-index of 16 and 889 citations, and a Scopus H-index of 13 with 560 citations. Prof. Njobeh is a C2 NRF-rated researcher and has attracted several research grants.

Francois Stepman is currently communications expert for the International Center for Agricultural Research in dry areas based in Cairo. Previously, he managed for a decade the communications of the Platform for African–European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development (PAEPARD), which was funded by the European Commission. He has more than 20 years of

experience in development cooperation, policy advisory research, and capacity building in Southern research institutes. He lived for approximately 10 years in Africa where he worked for the United Nations Development Programme in Mauritania, Medecins Sans Frontieres in South Sudan, and the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa in Ghana. Over the past 10 years, he has been extensively blogging on agricultural issues in Africa.

The PAEPARD blog has an average of 25,000 visitors per month. In 2016, he convened at the European Commission a round table of experts on aflatoxin to endorse a policy brief on the contamination of food and feed with aflatoxin in Africa. He manages an online community of 10,800 members. This includes a subcommunity of 400 African and global mycotoxin experts, which assesses current research and development needs, available expertise, and opportunities for collaboration and the dissemination of reports and conferences related to food safety, in particular mycotoxin contamination.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**in Africa 3**

**Section 1 Socio-economic Impact of Mycotoxins 1**

and Patrick Berka Njobeh

**Section 2 Prevention and Control of Aflatoxins 23**

Rensburg and Altus Viljoen

Audenaert and Geert Haesaert

**Strategies 91** Mateen Abbas

Titilayo Falade

Chapter 1 **The Socio-Economic Impact of Mycotoxin Contamination**

Chapter 2 **Effect of Harvesting Time and Drying Methods on Aflatoxin Contamination in Groundnut in Mozambique 25**

Brandenburg, Andrew Emmott and Ana M. Mondjana

**Mycotoxigenic Fungi and Associated Mycotoxins 41** Lindy J. Rose, Sheila Okoth, Bradley C. Flett, Belinda Janse van

Chapter 4 **Biological Control of Mycotoxigenic Fungi and Their Toxins: An**

Chapter 6 **Aflatoxin Management Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa 109**

Mohamed F. Abdallah, Maarten Ameye, Sarah De Saeger, Kris

Chapter 3 **Preharvest Management Strategies and Their Impact on**

**Update for the Pre-Harvest Approach 59**

Chapter 5 **Co-Occurrence of Mycotoxins and Its Detoxification**

Sefater Gbashi, Ntakadzeni Edwin Madala, Sarah De Saeger, Marthe De Boevre, Ifeoluwa Adekoya, Oluwafemi Ayodeji Adebo

Emmanuel Zuza Jnr, Amade Muitia, Manuel I.V. Amane, Rick L.
