CCDN linking organisations

1. Botany and Zoology, School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia is thanked for supporting the research by providing facilities for research and development on cassava cyanide diseases and for facilitating the production of this web page. Website http://www.anu.edu.au/BoZo/

2. The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Canberra, Australia. ACIAR funded research and production at the Australian National University of simple picrate kits for determination of total cyanide in cassava roots and flour and urinary thiocyanate and for their supply, free of charge, to health workers and agriculturalists in developing countries. ACIAR also funded the longitudinal monitoring of  cyanide levels in cassava flour and urinary thiocyanate of school children in four locations in Nampula Province of Mozambique. We thank Dr Paul Ferrar of ACIAR for his interest over 9 years and ACIAR for financial support. Website: http://www.aciar.gov.au

3. The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) supported the Konzo Workshop in Nampula, Mozambique in November 2000 and the Konzo Rehabilitation Centres in Mozambique. AusAID currently funds a program on prevention of konzo and rehabilitation of konzo cases in Mtwara and Ruvuma Regions in Southern Tanzania. We thank AusAID for their financial support. Website: www.ausaid.gov.au

4. The Kyeema Foundation has provided funds from GRM for testing in 2004-5 of the simple wetting method to remove cyanide from cassava flour and for the promotion of the method in two workshops held in Nampula City and Quelimane in Mozambique in 2006. We thank Ms Celia Grenning and Ms Robyn Alders of Kyeema for their support. Website: http://www.kyeemafoundation.org/