Post-harvest practices for aflatoxin control: Evidence from Kenya

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dc.creatorPretari, Alexia
dc.creatorHoffmann, Vivian
dc.creatorTian, Lulu
dc.date2019-11-11
dc.date2024-06-21T09:04:42Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:04:42Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:37:30Z
dc.descriptionWe 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.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/145581
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/109793
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101895
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourcePretari, Alexia; Hoffmann, Vivian; and Tian, Lulu. 2019. Post-harvest practices for aflatoxin control: Evidence from Kenya. Journal of Stored Products Research 82(June 2019): 31-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspr.2019.03.001
dc.subjectmycotoxins
dc.subjectfarmers
dc.subjectrandomized controlled trials
dc.subjectmaize
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.subjectpostharvest technology
dc.subjectharvesters
dc.subjectaflatoxins
dc.subjectharvesting date
dc.subjectmoisture content
dc.titlePost-harvest practices for aflatoxin control: Evidence from Kenya
dc.typeJournal Article

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