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

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cg.authorship.typesNot CGIAR international instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationGlobal Alliance for Improved Nutritionen
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.identifier.urlhttps://youtu.be/Vc7sQ2hM34Uen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL PRODUCTSen
cg.subject.ilriFOOD SAFETYen
cg.subject.ilriMARKETSen
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.impactPlatformNutrition, Health and Food Security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren
dc.contributor.authorGlobal Alliance for Improved Nutritionen
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-03T13:28:08Zen
dc.date.available2023-11-03T13:28:08Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/132708
dc.titleFood safety: The biggest development challenge you’ve never heard ofen
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
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen
dcterms.audienceDonorsen
dcterms.audienceGeneral Publicen
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationGlobal Alliance for Improved Nutrition. 2023. Food safety: The biggest development challenge you’ve never heard of. Video. Geneva, Switzerland: GAIN.en
dcterms.issued2023-10-30
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.subjectfood safetyen
dcterms.subjectanimal productsen
dcterms.subjectmarketsen
dcterms.typeVideo

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