This webinar place five priority areas of food safety in front of regional thought leaders to move us toward Actions for Food Safety Transformation. Regional leaders will share their insights on these priorities and the realities on the ground for making them happen considering, politics, financing, scalability, inclusivity and gaps in capacity and infrastructure.
Providing access to close to half of consumer nutrition needs, SMEs are the key drivers of the Food System. They integrate markets hence reducing poverty and hunger. SMEs create opportunities that improve equity by enabling environments for the youth, women and other marginalized groups.
Today is International Youth Day, an awareness day created by the United Nations. The theme this year, "Transforming food systems: Youth innovation for human and planetary health", highlights the upcoming United Nations Food Systems Summit, an international event providing global leaders an opportunity to launch new policy and programmatic actions for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Understanding the rapidly changing situation for vendors in traditional markets and the consumers that rely on these markets can provide vital information for determining what is needed to ensure the availability of affordable, safe, nutritious food during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Food safety lies at the heart of addressing hunger and malnutrition, because if food it’s safe, it isn’t food. Progress towards SDG 2 by 2030 may not be realised if we do not ensure food safety. Stakeholders globally are engaging to discuss the development of a Coalition of Action for Food Safety.
EatSafe evaluated the regulatory and policy landscape for food safety in Nigeria at the national and regional levels, which included an assessment of existing regulations and resulted in recommendations for strengthening implementation.
BLOG: Over the past eight months we—in our capacity as Action Track Chairs for the UN Food Systems Summit—have received well over 2,000 written submissions from around the world on how to transform food systems so that they can deliver access to safe and nutritious foods for all, in ways that deliver sustainable consumption, use approaches that are positive and regenerative for nature, generate livelihoods and decent work for those who depend on the food system, while promoting equity and building resilience for all.
Food is traded both globally and locally. Yet even when consumers can purchase food from all over the world, local, "traditional" markets often provide the least expensive, freshest products with the shortest supply chains. And that is why local markets are ubiquitous and essential for feeding consumers of all types.
Join us for USAID Feed the Future’s EatSafe Interview Cruncher hosted by GAIN examining the important questions of how to close the knowledge gap between food safety and nutrition and how to elevate food safety in global development conversations.
