Nourishing Futures: The Opportunity of Investing in Child Nutrition
“Be the voice of the children” - that was a key messages of a panel discussion held at the 2024 Sankalp Africa Summit on a sunny morning in Nairobi. It focused on how investors and those who work with them can adapt their approaches to better support children’s nutrition. Among the five panellists — representing GAIN, the World Food Programme, UNICEF, Save the Children, and a local enterprise, Shalem Investment Limited — the motivation for doing this was clear. Children are the future, comprising nearly half of the African population at present and growing fast — expected to reach 1 billion by 2055. They thus have the potential to accelerate development not only in Africa but worldwide. But that potential is currently limited by malnutrition.
Mini Cruncher: EatSafe - Protecting Nutrition through Food Safety
Feed The Future's EatSafe: Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food is a USAID-funded programme aiming to enable lasting improvements in the safety of nutritious foods in traditional markets by focusing on behaviour change. Sadia Kaenzig, Head of Communications and Caroline DeWaal, Deputy Director at EatSafe speak about the importance and impact of food safety.
EatSafe in Nigeria Baseline Assessment
As part of EatSafe's effort to evaluate the impacts of food safety behavior change interventions, this report summarized food safety behaviors and behavior drivers across four food safety macro-indices, assessed via structured surveys of vendors and consumers in Nigeria.
EatSafe in Ethiopia Baseline Assessment
As part of EatSafe's effort to evaluate the impacts of food safety behavior change interventions, this report summarized food safety behaviors and behavior drivers across four food safety macro-indices, assessed via structured surveys of vendors and consumers in Hawassa, Ethiopia.
Food Safety Hazards and Risk Associated with Fresh Vegetables
EatSafe collected samples of three nutritious commodities to assess the relative exposure and risk of foodborne illness from consuming tomatoes, kale, and lettuce sold in traditional food markets in Southern Ethiopia.
Food Safety, Traditional Markets, and Consumer Demand in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Landscape Synthesis
The scope of this review focused on traditional markets, which provide millions of people with nutrient-rich commodities like animal-source foods and fresh produce. However, these same foods are the leading cause of foodborne disease globally. The research, based on insights from 11 literature reviews, revealed that there is a strong connection between food safety, nutrition, and health. To address these issues, a food systems approach is required.
Food Safety: The Biggest Development Challenge You’ve Never Heard Of
Virtual, Global
On October 31, join us for this exclusive, virtual screening and fireside chat of EatSafe’s latest film, Food Safety: The Biggest Development Challenge You’ve Never Heard Of.
Where supply and demand meet: how consumer and vendor interactions create a market, a Nigerian example
In this paper, EatSafe examines the process of “making a market” through a case study of vendors and consumers, using in-depth interviews, in Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria. Results demonstrate that market transactions are influenced by a complex interaction of vendors’ norms on competition and collaboration, consumers’ needs for credit amid unpredictable prices and restrictive gender norms, and a “moral economy” that appears to guide market actors’ behavior.