Food Safety in Africa : Past Endeavors and Future Directions

Current donor investment in food safety in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) largely reflects the concerns of previous decades and as a result is substantially focused on access to regional and overseas export markets, with emphasis on national control syst...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2022
Subjects:	NUTRITION FOOD SAFETY NATIONAL CONTROL SYSTEMS AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS OVERSEAS EXPORT MARKETS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099551304282239067/IDU04315464c0d5140416a097160243f58270faa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37438

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spelling	okr-10986-374382022-09-19T18:07:42Z Food Safety in Africa : Past Endeavors and Future Directions World Bank NUTRITION FOOD SAFETY NATIONAL CONTROL SYSTEMS AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS OVERSEAS EXPORT MARKETS Current donor investment in food safety in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) largely reflects the concerns of previous decades and as a result is substantially focused on access to regional and overseas export markets, with emphasis on national control systems. Relatively little is being done to reduce foodborne illness among consumers in SSA. More investment in food safety (by African governments, donors, and the private sector) is needed to help ensure that Africans have safe food. New understanding of foodborne disease burden and management, along with rapid and broad change within societies and agri-food systems in SSA, has led to food safety emerging as an important public health and development issue. There is need to reconsider donor and national government investment strategies and the role of the private sector. This report is a call for action on food safety. It provides up-to-date information on key food safety actors, presents the first-ever analysis of food safety investments in SSA, captures insights from a wide-ranging expert consultation and makes suggestions for attaining food safety, based on evidence but also consensus principles, successful elsewhere but not yet applied widely in mass domestic markets in SSA. 2022-05-13T17:41:47Z 2022-05-13T17:41:47Z 2022-04-27 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099551304282239067/IDU04315464c0d5140416a097160243f58270faa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37438 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Report Publications & Research Africa Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) Africa Western and Central (AFW) Africa East Africa West Africa
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description	Current donor investment in food safety in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) largely reflects the concerns of previous decades and as a result is substantially focused on access to regional and overseas export markets, with emphasis on national control systems. Relatively little is being done to reduce foodborne illness among consumers in SSA. More investment in food safety (by African governments, donors, and the private sector) is needed to help ensure that Africans have safe food. New understanding of foodborne disease burden and management, along with rapid and broad change within societies and agri-food systems in SSA, has led to food safety emerging as an important public health and development issue. There is need to reconsider donor and national government investment strategies and the role of the private sector. This report is a call for action on food safety. It provides up-to-date information on key food safety actors, presents the first-ever analysis of food safety investments in SSA, captures insights from a wide-ranging expert consultation and makes suggestions for attaining food safety, based on evidence but also consensus principles, successful elsewhere but not yet applied widely in mass domestic markets in SSA.
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title	Food Safety in Africa : Past Endeavors and Future Directions
title_short	Food Safety in Africa : Past Endeavors and Future Directions
title_full	Food Safety in Africa : Past Endeavors and Future Directions
title_fullStr	Food Safety in Africa : Past Endeavors and Future Directions
title_full_unstemmed	Food Safety in Africa : Past Endeavors and Future Directions
title_sort	food safety in africa : past endeavors and future directions
publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate	2022
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Food Safety in Africa : Past Endeavors and Future Directions

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