Supporting Entrepreneurs to Adopt Scalable Techniques to Improve Nutrition for Low-income Consumers

Supporting Entrepreneurs to Adopt Scalable Techniques to Improve Nutrition for Low-income Consumers

Since most people get a large portion of their food from the private sector, private-sector companies can play a key role in improving nutrition by bringing more safe and nutritious products to market, in forms that are appealing and affordable to consumers. This is ever more important in Nigeria today, where annual food inflation in December 2023 reached 28% - putting healthy diets beyond the reach of many lower-income consumers.
EatSafe in Nigeria Baseline Assessment

EatSafe in Nigeria Baseline Assessment

- 06/03/2023

As part of EatSafe's effort to evaluate the impacts of food safety behavior change interventions, this report summarized food safety behaviors and behavior drivers across four food safety macro-indices, assessed via structured surveys of vendors and consumers in Nigeria.
Improving Nigeria food system to reduce malnutrition

Improving Nigeria food system to reduce malnutrition

- 04/10/2023

Nigeria’s plan for the transformation of its food systems, presented after the landmark 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit, is proof of its strong political dedication to implementing impactful changes in the country’s food systems.
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

- 18/08/2023

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.
Commercialisation of biofortified crops (CBC) factsheet

Commercialisation of biofortified crops (CBC) factsheet

- 21/06/2023

The Commercialisation for Biofortified Crops (CBC) project was launched by GAIN and HarvestPlus in 2020 with an overall goal to reach at least 167 million consumers with nutrient-dense biofortified foods (previously piloted by HarvestPlus) by 2022 in six countries in Africa (Nigeria, Kenya, and Tanzania) and Asia (India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan), through commercial pathways.