Food safety: The biggest development challenge you’ve never heard of

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cg.authorship.typesNot CGIAR international instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationGlobal Alliance for Improved Nutritionen_US
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten_US
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen_US
cg.identifier.urlhttps://youtu.be/Vc7sQ2hM34Uen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systemsen_US
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL PRODUCTSen_US
cg.subject.ilriFOOD SAFETYen_US
cg.subject.ilriMARKETSen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food securityen_US
cg.subject.impactPlatformNutrition, Health and Food Securityen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren_US
dc.contributor.authorGlobal Alliance for Improved Nutritionen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-03T13:28:08Zen_US
dc.date.available2023-11-03T13:28:08Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/132708en_US
dc.titleFood safety: The biggest development challenge you’ve never heard ofen_US
dcterms.abstractDelia Grace Randolph, the world’s leading researcher on food safety in traditional markets makes a case for investment in food safety. Impacting billions of people directly and indirectly every year, foodborne disease (FBD) is a low-hanging fruit in the development agenda to improve the quality of life in LMICs. Feed The Future’s EatSafe: Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food (EatSafe), highlights how the problem is immense, tractable, and has been neglected for decades by governments and international donors. Minimizing FBD in traditional markets not only prevents people from getting sick, but it helps seize the full potential of investments in nutrition, health, education, and financial independence. Traditional markets are the main source of nutrition for billions of people around the globe. They are often the main source of income for women and a hub of communal life. But with development dollars largely going to agriculture and nutrition programs, these market vendors have been neglected by the donors for decades. Traditional market vendors often lack the necessary infrastructure, food handling skills, and incentives to ensure that the food they sell is safe to consume. As a too common result, the available perishable, and highly nutritious foods, like meat, GLV, eggs, and dairy, often contain pathogens, such as salmonella, that compromise human health--particularly in young children, the elderly population, and the immunosuppressed. But this challenge presents a great opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people globally. With the reduction of a relatively small number of pathogens from these markets, we could eliminate more than 80% of the disease. How do we do that? Delia walks us through the Three-Legged Stool Approach to food safety: creating enabling environments, training vendors, and ensuring that incentives are in place for the vendors to change their food handling practices. She stresses that consumer demand for safe food must be the engine that gives the momentum to the work toward safer food in traditional markets.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen_US
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen_US
dcterms.audienceDonorsen_US
dcterms.audienceGeneral Publicen_US
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationGlobal Alliance for Improved Nutrition. 2023. Food safety: The biggest development challenge you’ve never heard of. Video. Geneva, Switzerland: GAIN.en_US
dcterms.issued2023-10-30en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserveden_US
dcterms.subjectfood safetyen_US
dcterms.subjectanimal productsen_US
dcterms.subjectmarketsen_US
dcterms.typeVideoen_US

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