- 13/04/2023
This paper discusses the critical importance of expanding 'food systems infrastructure' as a necessary pre-condition for improving access to healthy and sustainable diets in low- and middle-income countries. It proposes a tractable definition of food systems infrastructure, highlights deficits that have yet to be addressed, and lays out a generic way forward to accelerate infrastructure accumulation.
- 23/03/2023
The review demonstrates that designing policies to holistically address underlying drivers of inequity would require data disaggregated at the level of relevant social groups, with adequate geographic granularity, as well as qualitative data from the perspectives of affected people spanning food environments, socioeconomic information, and the food security, nutrition, and health issues that policies target.
- 15/12/2021
EatSafe collected samples of seven nutritious commodities to assess the relative exposure and risk of foodborne illness from consuming products commonly sold in traditional food markets in northwestern Nigeria.
- 20/02/2023
The EatSafe program conducted a range of formative research activities to understand the local context in Hawassa, Ethiopia. Learnings from these activities were then used to develop market-based interventions to increase consumer demand for improved food safety.
- 20/01/2023
Limited access to markets and poor market infrastructure are underlying factors that negatively impact nutrition outcomes for the rural poor in hard-to-reach areas, including communities working on tea estates in India. An innovative and sustainable market-based supply chain model was tested in Assam, India, to improve the nutrition of the tea estate communities.
- 19/01/2023
Healthy diets are unaffordable to over 2 billion people worldwide and food access remains a challenge for many. The food environment illustrates the interaction of consumers with different food retail outlets to acquire and consume food.
- 21/12/2022
EatSafe conducted a focused ethnographic study to examine perceptions, knowledge, and experience related to food safety among consumers and traditional food market vendors Hawassa, Ethiopia.
- 05/12/2022
This GAIN working paper describes the process used by EatSafe in Nigeria to identify and design innovative interventions to improve the safety of nutritious foods in traditional food markets.
- 14/11/2022
To understand knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to food safety behaviors, EatSafe surveyed 300 consumers and vendors in Hawassa, Ethiopia, as well as structured observations of vendor behaviors.
- 01/12/2022
This working paper describes the application of the Behaviour Centred Design (BCD) framework to develop the 'Moments with Mothers' campaign, an intervention to improve IYCF practices supporting pregnant women, mothers, and other caregivers in Nacala Porto and Mossuril, Nampula province.
