Where supply and demand meet: how consumer and vendor interactions create a market, a Nigerian example

Where supply and demand meet: how consumer and vendor interactions create a market, a Nigerian example

In this paper, EatSafe examines the process of “making a market” through a case study of vendors and consumers, using in-depth interviews, in Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria. Results demonstrate that market transactions are influenced by a complex interaction of vendors’ norms on competition and collaboration, consumers’ needs for credit amid unpredictable prices and restrictive gender norms, and a “moral economy” that appears to guide market actors’ behavior.
EatSafe Interventions in Ethiopia

EatSafe Interventions in Ethiopia

To increase consumer demand for improved food safety, EatSafe is testing three interventions that seek to change consumers and vendor behaviors in a traditional food market in Hawassa, Ethiopia.
In the pursuit of improved nutrition, food safety is a non-negotiable

In the pursuit of improved nutrition, food safety is a non-negotiable

GAIN’s mission is to improve the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially those most vulnerable to malnutrition. As a nutrition organisation, we understand food safety to be a core component of our mission and our ability to achieve healthier diets. Safe food is essential for food security and nutrition, and it affects everything from what consumers eat, to their livelihoods, and their families’ health.
Food standards save lives

Food standards save lives

 Online Webinar, Global

On 7 June, World Food Safety Day, FAO and WHO will host a hybrid high-level event where participants can learn how food safety standards contribute to saving lives. The event will expand on this year’s theme for World Food Safety Day, "Food standards save lives".