Safe food, fair food: Building capacity to improve the safety of animal-source foods and ensure continued market access for poor farmers in sub-Saharan Africa

Published on 26 July 2010

Research Areas

Livestock, Market Access

Countries

Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania

Timeline

Start Date: 1 January 2008 | End Date: 31 December 2011

Overview

This project works to establish capacity for sustainable promotion of risk-based approaches to improve food safety and participation of the poor in informal markets of livestock products in sub-Saharan Africa. The project is being implemented in eight countries – Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania – in collaboration with GTZ’s program on Private-Sector Development in Agriculture and the Netherlands Development Organization (SNV).

Research Partners

• Government
• BfR, Germany
• Other
• INIVE
• University
• Addis Ababa University
• Sokoine University of Agriculture - Tanzania
• University of Ghana
• University of Hohenheim, Germany
• University of Pretoria, South Africa

Tags

Capacity strengthening, food safety, value chains