A boy in Maichew area, Ethiopia selling carrots to passers-by (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu).
The project aims to improve food safety in urban informal markets in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. While previous efforts have focused on training producers or regulators with little attention to incentives for behaviour change, the project investigates if consumer demand can provide the same incentive (‘pull’) for food safety in low- and middle-income countries as it has in high-income countries. It also builds capacity of market-level value chain actors to respond to demand (for example, by improving practices or adapting technologies) and of regulators to provide an enabling environment (‘push’). We hypothesize that both ‘pull’ and ‘push’ approaches need to be co-implemented in urban food markets in Africa to lead to sustainably improved food safety. In addition, an enabling environment is a pre-requisite to improvements in food safety.
Work packages
Work Package 1: Estimating burden and cost of key foodborne illnesses in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia
Work Package 2: Understanding the poultry and vegetable value chains in urban markets in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia
Work Package 3: Quantitative microbial risk assessment and cost-effectiveness analysis of candidate market-based interventions
Work Package 4: Build capacity and motivation of regulators to manage food safety (intervention 1, push approach)
Work Package 5: Empower market-level value chain actors to manage food safety (intervention 2, push approach)
Work Package 6: Design and implementation of a consumer campaign (intervention 3, pull approach)
Work Package 7: Impact assessment of pull-push intervention
Start date: November 2018 | End date: October 2022
Partners
Addis Ababa University
Centre d’Analyse des Politiques Economiques et Sociales
Freie Universität Berlin
Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles
Institut de Recherche en Sciences Appliquées et Technologies
University of Florida
Wageningen University and Research
World Vegetable Centre
Funders
The project is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UK aid from the UK Department for International Development, and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health led by the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Contact
Theo Knight-Jones (t.knight-jones@cgiar.org)
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