This project is coordinated by IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
NUTRIPASS unit "Food and Nutrition Research in the Global South"
UMR Nutripass, 911 avenue Agropolis, BP 64501 34394 Montpellier Cedex, FRANCE
Christèle HUMBLOT , Coordinator
Tel : + 33 (0)4 67 41 62 48
Fax: + 33 (0)4 67 41 61 57
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Welcome to the FolEA project !
Contribution of cereal-based fermented foods to Folate intake in European and African countries
The FolEA consortium is an international group of scientists from Africa and Europe, specialized in microbiology, nutrition, food chemistry, and food technology. Since October 2014, they have been working together on the nutritional potential of lactic acid bacteria in term of vitamin B9 (folate) production, and the possibility of improving the intakes of folates by women and young children, by increasing the folate contents of traditional cereal-based staple foods, through fermentation.
Download the leaflet presenting the project
The FolEA project is part of the ERA-Net « Developing African-European joint collaboration for Science and Technology » (ERAfrica), that is financially supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme.
News from the project
FolEA results are getting published !
One review article and 2 papers were accepted lately. Those articles present the work of Fabien Saubade (IRD, France), who defended his PhD thesis on the 2nd December 2016. Have a look at the "Publications" section, you can download the pdf files.
Second annual meeting:
The 2nd annual meeting of the FolEA project was held in Ouagadougou (Burkina-Faso) the 12th and 13th December 2016, and was organized by the IRSAT team. The partners discussed the results, experiment plans, publication plans, reporting, funding and the exchange of students and researchers.
From left to right: PhD student Fabrice Bationo (IRSAT, Burkina-Faso) , Dr Kaleab Baye (Uni. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), Dr Fatoumata Hama-Ba (IRSAT, Burkina-Faso), Dr Christèle Humblot (IRD, France), Dr Susanna Kariluoto (Uni. Helsinki, Finland), Dr Laurencia Songre (IRSAT, Burkina-Faso), Dr Youna Hemery (IRD, France), Dr Olanrewaju Fayemi (Uni. Pretoria, South Africa), Pr Andre Oelofse (Uni. Western Cape, South Africa).
FolEA students:
Our great FolEA students Fabien, Manon, Alexis, Maria del Carmen and Morgane, are having fun / working hard in the lab during the summer in Montpellier !
First annual meeting:
After the kick-off meeting that was held in Montpellier (France) in November 2014, the first annual meeting of the FolEA project was held in Debre Zeit (Ethiopia) in October 2015. The partners discussed the first results and advances of the project, the reporting, funding and the exchange of students and researchers.
From left to right: Dr Youna Hemery (IRD, France), Dr Christèle Humblot (IRD, France), Dr Fatoumata Hama-Ba (IRSAT, Burkina-Faso), Dr Laurencia Songre (IRSAT, Burkina-Faso), Dr Susanna Kariluoto (Uni. Helsinki, Finland), Dr Claire Mouquet-Rivier (IRD, France), Dr Kaleab Baye (Uni. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), and PhD student Aynadis Tamene (Uni. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia).
The FolEA project is part of the ERA-Net « Developing African-European joint collaboration for Science and Technology » (ERAfrica), financially supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (grant agreement: 266603).