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Production of alfalfa leaf extract at « Munay Wasi » in Peru
Alban and Quentin are two final-year students at the Purpan Agricultural Engineering school in Toulouse. They have been given the go-ahead for a humanitarian aid mission to “La Casa Campesina” (Munay Wasi in Quechua), in the Peruvian Andes. Their three-month mission,...
APEF Senegal’s “downstream” activities
The aim is to make foliar concentrates known and recognized by beneficiaries, health professionals and Senegalese health authorities, by importing Luzixine (Alfalfa LC trade name) produced in France.This so-called “downstream” activity is in fact a prerequisite for...
Operation Spéculoos 2023
Dear friends, Like last year, I'm sending you my invitation to “Operation Spéculoos”. The aim remains the same: to support Doctor Nyakasane's Kesho Congo association, which fights malnutrition among young children in Bukavu, Kivu (DR Congo). Although there's a lot of...
A new update of the Center Environnemental pour la Recherche et la Formation en Agroécologie (CERFA), one of our partners in Sénégal:
« The water is now flowing freely on the CERFA land, which will enable us to consider larger-scale cultivation and launch other trials and experiments in animal breeding and agronomy!
Safe Nutrition’s upstream activities: alfalfa agroecology:
Alongside the provision of LCs for children and pregnant or breastfeeding women, APEF Switzerland has launched a research partnership with the Université Cheikh-Anta-Diop (UCAD) and the Centre Environnemental pour la Recherche et la Formation en Agroécologie (CERFA)...
In Senegal, the NGO of Ndem Villagers is taking charge of the packaging and distribution of alfalfa leaf extract (EFL) in the Ndem and Mbacke Kadior region:
Bernard Giroud has been working on an EFL production project in Senegal for several years now. He has named it Safe-Nutrition: ‘which tastes good’ in Wolof! At the same time as studying the behavior of alfalfa in local soil and climate conditions, Safe Nutrition has...
Operation Spéculoos 2022
Francis is responsible for the ‘DRC’ committee on the APEF Board, and is also a loyal friend of the Kesho Congo association with which we work in South Kivu. Every year he invests an amazing amount of energy in the Speculoos operation: ‘A BISCUIT HERE FOR A BISCUIT IN...
Francis shares with us his first impressions and thoughts at the start of his journey to Kesho Congo:
Francis is a member of the APEF Board of Directors and he is in charge of monitoring our collaboration with "Kesho Congo" in South Kivu in the DRC, an association that invests with great energy in the fight against malnutrition, that especially children up to 10 years...
10 years ago, Jacques left us.
On this day, the APEF remembers its founder, Jacques Subtil, buried at Notre Dame de Corroy on October 8, 2012.On this occasion, Sister Luci, community activist and partner of APEF in Nicaragua*, expressed the gratitude of all the beneficiaries of leaf concentrates...
Kesho Kongo produces cowpea leaf extract (EFN) in South Kivu, DRC
" Yesterday, our agronomist Fabrice Nteranya took delivery of 21kg of EFN at our central office in Bukavu. This will make 4,200 cures to combat malnutrition (at 5 grams per child per day). Our local production is slowly increasing ! " It was with these words that Dr...
APEF has published an overview of its activities
You can read this presentation document here.You can also print it on both sides for distribution to your networks. Thank you for your interest.
Example of leaf extraction
As you know, as part of the drive for food sovereignty in developing countries, APEF is developing and promoting ways of producing (as close as possible to local agricultural production of legumes and certain green plants such as alfalfa, cowpeas and amaranth) the...
