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| The primary beneficiaries of the project will be rural and peri-urban poor people who will
derive income and have better food security. The general population in participating countries
will benefit through enhanced health due to increased consumption of healthy food
(mushrooms) and wider use of medicinal mushrooms which should increase life expectancy.
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The Mushroom Production Network Node aims to promote production, consumption and medicinal use of cultivable
mushrooms in southern Africa. Through awareness creation, mushroom farming and
processing skills training, and research capacity building, it proposes to put in place a viable
holistic mushroom industry by 2015, which will have networks of farmers, processors and
marketers of mushroom products within nation states and between southern African states.
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