Food Safety Education, Training, and Technology Interventions in Africa and Asia: A Review

This review describes recent food safety interventions focused on traditional market settings and consumers who buy food there. Data was extracted from 19 and 23 articles from Asian and African countries, respectively.

Verifying laboratory performance and quality control in the context of micronutrient testing of fortified food - A guidance document

This Guidance Document describes the various elements of quality management (QM) and quality control (QC) required in a laboratory setting. Many qualitative elements are required to analyse the various chemical parameters in food samples, particularly for micronutrient testing and for testing food safety and food quality substances.

GAIN Interview Cruncher: Response to COVID-19 from food systems angle

18 February 2021  Online Webinar, Global

On Thursday 18th February don’t miss the "GAIN Interview Cruncher- Response to COVID-19 from food systems angle" at 2pm CET. The webinar will host the experts to discuss the Keeping Food Markets Working initiative, what’s at stake and why this is so relevant in building our food systems forward better.

Food Safety Oversight and Governance: Building a National Food Safety System that Works for Consumers

27 January 2021  Online Webinar, Global

In 2019, the World Bank released a report entitled The Safe Food Imperative. It described how food safety is linked to achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development goals in both direct and indirect ways. This Webinar will bring together experts in the field to discuss the current state of food safety governance in the African region.

2020: A year of pain, a year of revelation, a year of optimism

As we draw to the end of 2020, COVID-19 rages on; hunger numbers are on the increase; and we are not on track to meet the 1.5C Paris target to limit global warming. According to the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard, 72 million people have been infected with the novel coronavirus and 1.7 million have died.  And counting. According to the IMF, the measures taken to combat the virus have led to GDP declines of around 4-10%, depending on the country.

EatSafe in Nigeria: Food Safety Stakeholder Reports

During program startup in Nigeria, EatSafe identified and gauged stakeholders’ interest and influence in food safety. EatSafe then convened a series of events to engage these stakeholders at local and national levels prior to intervention implementation.

Nigeria Policy, Monitoring Systems Analysis and Stakeholder Mapping Report

EatSafe evaluated the regulatory and policy landscape for food safety in Nigeria at the national and regional levels, which included a stakeholder mapping exercise and resulted in recommendations for strengthening implementation.

Integrating Food Safety and Nutrition for Improved Health and Wellbeing

This report looks at existing conceptual frameworks for food systems with a new lens that links food safety and nutrition and explores how such a perspective can be used to improve policy and programming.

Webinar – The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on global food security

10 December 2020  Online Webinar, Global

COVID-19 is disrupting humanitarian aid and development cooperation projects globally. Furthermore, the pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on food supply chains, undermining access to food for many.

GAIN Working Paper Series 14 - Selling to the world's poorest - the potential role of markets in increasing access to nutritious foods

Poor people in the global South eat diets with few nutrient-dense foods, putting children and adults alike at risk of malnutrition. Strategies to improve their diets will look different depending on whether current access to such foods is mostly via home production or via purchase and on whether poor families actually want to consume more of specific nutrient-dense food groups.