Food Safety Training Manual for Vendors in a Traditional Vegetable Market
Feed the Future’s EatSafe: Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food (FTF EatSafe) aimed to boost consumer demand for safe, nutritious foods in traditional markets in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), specifically Nigeria and Ethiopia. Utilizing a two-phased approach, FTF EatSafe's Phase I combined global evidence with local situational analyses to understand the context, and Phase II involved designing, testing, and implementing interventions to empower consumers. Insights from formative research guided the development of interventions, including the Vendor Training Initiative in Hawassa, Ethiopia. The Vendor Training Initiative, piloted in the Aroge Gebeya market in Hawassa
How government-industry collaboration can improve worker nutrition in India
Enhancing nutrition for India’s working-age population through workforce nutrition practices can yield numerous benefits, including improved well-being for workers and their families, better productivity, and a stronger economy. Key pillars include access to healthy food, breastfeeding support, nutrition health checks, and nutrition education.
The Importance of Healthy and Hygienic Food Streets in India
This brief describes a Government of India initiative – the Healthy and Hygienic Food Streets (HHFS) programme that aims to make the country’s street food safer. It shares some of GAIN’s recent contributions to these efforts and provides some implications for national and state governments to consider.
Market Assessment Tools for Traditional Markets
The purpose of this assessment tool is to gather data from vendors, consumers, and key stakeholders in traditional markets to identify food safety challenges and perceptions. This information helps design effective behaviour change interventions to enhance food safety practices. The tool includes methods for comprehensive data collection through interviews, observations, and discussions.
GAIN Student Challenge 2024
- Arnhem, Netherlands , Global
With this Student Challenge, GAIN aims to engage students from diverse backgrounds raising awareness of our work on food, nutrition and food systems. Through expert sessions, we will deepen the students’ understanding of food systems and the global nutrition situation including the link to climate. The students will get insights into the challenges faced when trying to improve international food systems and nutrition. Coaching will be provided on interdisciplinary teamwork and on how to pitch their solutions to a professional jury.
Committee on World Food Security - CFS 52
- Rome, Italy, Global
The 52nd Plenary Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 52) will be held from 21 to 25 October 2024 in Rome, Italy.
GAIN Working Paper Series n°40: Bringing Food Safety to the Shoppers
Reducing foodborne disease in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is crucial for advancing nutrition, health, and other development goals. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)/Feed the Future’s Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food (EatSafe) program sought to harness consumer demand as a mechanism to improve food safety practices and generate evidence on how to raise consumer demand for safe, nutritious foods in traditional market settings—the main source of food for most LMIC consumers.
Infrastructure for Food Safety Improvement in Local Markets
Buguruni market is a traditional food market in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania with about 2,630 vendors selling their produce to about 70,000 consumers daily. In a rapid assessment conducted in 2020, almost a third of consumers reported concerns related to food safety when shopping in the market.