Report on Normative Guidelines for Governments to Promote Safer Traditional Markets

- 20/09/2021

EatSafe reviewed existing normative guidelines that could be used by governments and other enabling organizations to promote safer food in traditional markets.

Accelerating Action for Food Safety Transformation in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

30 September 2021Online Webinar, Global

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.

SME Priorities at the Pre-Summit

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.

International Youth Day – Prioritizing safely feeding the next generation

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).

Multi-Country Market Reports: Vendor and Consumer Perspectives on COVID-19

- 09/08/2021

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.

If it isn’t safe, it isn’t food: promoting food safety to achieve the 2030 SDG agenda

27 July 2021Online Webinar, Global

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.

Review of Food Safety Policy in Nigeria

- 30/06/2021

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.

Nine more harvests to transform our food systems

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.

On World Food Safety Day, we honor the traditional market

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.