Global Review of Consumer and Vendor Perspectives on Food Safety

- 14/09/2020

To understand how both food vendors and consumers conceptualize food safety, and how knowledge and beliefs are reflected in practices and social interactions, EatSafe conducted scoping reviews on consumer (Part 1) and vendor (Part 2) perceptions of food safety.

Literature Review Linking Food Safety and Nutrition

- 11/09/2020

This report provides an overview of the pathways that link food safety and nutrition, and their shared impacts on health. It highlights research gaps and opportunities for intervention in support of Feed the Future and EatSafe programming. 

Development and humanitarian civil society Call to Action

The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated that humanity is placing too much pressure on the natural world and has laid bare profound inequalities in societies. Deforestation, wildlife trade and conversion of land for highly intensive and unsustainable agriculture and livestock production, are destroying ecosystems and increasing interactions between wildlife and humans, opening the door to infectious disease outbreaks.

Measuring Performance for Food Safety

03 September 2020  Online Webinar, Global

Many actors and factors are involved with reducing the burden of food safety illnesses, including governments, industry, and consumers. How should we measure progress? This Webinar will discuss the role of metrics, performance standards, and indicators in improving food safety for low- and middle-income countries.  

Food Safety in Traditional Markets in Africa and Asia

19 August 2020  Online Webinar, Global

Food safety is essential to food and nutrition security. In low- and middle-income countries many consumers buy nutrient-dense foods such as animal-sourced foods and fresh fruits and vegetables in traditional or "informal" markets. These markets play a vital role in food availability and affordability, but they have limited infrastructure to control the safety of food, and usually no oversight from public health authorities.

Food Safety and Nutrition: How are they Connected, and Why does it Matter?

06 August 2020  Online Webinar, Global

Food safety is an integral part of food and nutrition security. For food to be safe, it must not cause harm to the consumer when it is prepared or eaten according to its intended use. Accessing safe food is essential to ensure consumers can access the nutritional benefits of their food.

Improving food safety: an emerging imperative in low-income countries

Scares involving food contamination tend to make headlines when they occur in high-income countries. These rare outbreaks are all the more dramatic because consumers usually take for granted that the food they purchase will be safe: in high-income countries, governments have rigorous food safety standards with staff and budgets to support their enforcement, and many major retailers establish their own standards and procedures for ensuring that the food on their shelves is safe to eat.

The need for transformational dietary shifts – Davos side event

26 January 2018  Davos, Switzerland

On Friday, 26 January 2018,  FReSH – a joint project of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and EAT Forum– Royal DSM and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) organized a high-level breakfast on dietary shifts.

Using ethnography in implementation research to improve nutrition interventions in populations

- 17/12/2016

‘Implementation research in nutrition’ is an emerging area of study aimed at building evidence‐based knowledge and sound theory to design and implement programs that will effectively deliver nutrition interventions. This paper describes some of the basic features of ethnography and illustrates its applications in components of the implementation process.

3rd International Conference on Global Food Security

03 December 2017 - 06 December 2017  Cape Town, Global

The 3rd International Conference on Global Food Security will bring together leaders from industry and academia to exchange and share their experiences, present research results, explore collaborations, and to spark new ideas, with the aim of developing new projects and exploiting new technology for food security.