Training on Quality and Safety in Dairy Value Chain: Analyses, Practices, Stakeholders, and Institutions

Event Type
Training
Event Summary

The Department of Food Technology, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in collaboration with Wageningen University and Research (WUR) through the LIQUID project will be conducting a three days training workshop from 5th-7th February, 2019 on Quality and Safety in Dairy Value Chain at SUA.

Potential  participants  are  postgraduate  students  and    young    researchers in food science/safety, public health, animal science, agribusiness and related fields.  The training is free, there will be refreshments, lunches, drinks and   a training closing dinner. No per diems and reimbursement of transport costs.

Only 25 participants will be selected on merits and first-come-first-served basis.

Application deadline is 10th January, 2019. If interested, please send your email to Dr Jamal Kussaga (E-mail: kussaga@sua.ac.tz).

Date & Time

This training workshop will be conducted in three days from 5th - 7th February, 2019

Speaker/Presenter

Dr. Jos Bijman is an Associate Professor of  Cooperative  Organisations,  at the Business Management & Organisation Group (WUR). His  research  focus is on organisational innovation in food value chains, with special atten-  tion to horizontal collaboration among agricultural producers in formal and informal producer organisations.

Dr. Pieternel Luning is an Associate Professor of " Food Quality Manage- ment" at the Food Quality & Design (PDQ) group (WUR). Her teaching and research activities relate to the techno-managerial approach in analysing and solving problems in food quality management systems along the food supply chain .

Dr. Kasper Hettinga is an Associate Professor of “Dairy protein biochemis-  try” at PDQ group (WUR). His teaching as well  as  research  is  related  to milk composition and quality along the dairy production chain.

MSc. James Ledo is a PhD candidate in Food quality management of the PDQ group (WUR). His research is focused on using Techno-managerial research approach to understand quality control systems in emerging milk supply chains for targeted interventions for milk quality and safety.

MSc. Mercy Mwambi is a PhD student at the Business Management and Organisation Group (WUR). Her research interests include innovations in farmer collaborative approaches and value chain.

MSc. Simon Nyokabi is a PhD candidate of the Animal production systems group (WUR). His research focus is on improving milk quality of smallholder farmers in Kenya, and how to improve food safety in livestock value chains.

Location/Venue
Targeted Audience

Potential participants are postgraduate students and young researchers in food science/safety, public health, animal science, agribusiness and related fields

Event Registration
Required
Event Cost
Free
Training on Quality and Safety in Dairy Value Chain

Training program

  • Welcome remarks and workshop introduction
  • Basics in dairy quality & safety
  • Approaches, methodologies and experiences in dairy quality and safety analysis
  • Visit to dairy farm or Shambani milk Ltd
  • Basics in techno-managerial ap- proach in food quality manage- ment-dairy
  • Principles tools to assess quality/ safety control practices in dairy chains/ diagnostic tool
  • Basics in dairy value chain
  • Producer organisations and milk quality improvement
  • Principle network analysis
  • Institutional perspective
  • Assignments
  • Group presentations
  • Plenary discussion (Development of dairy value chain in Tanzania
  • Critical reflections
  • Training evaluation and certificate
  • Closing speech
  • Social event (drinks and dinner)
     
Contact Information

Dr Jamal Kussaga
E-mail: kussaga@sua.ac.tz

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