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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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099551304282239067/IDU04315464c0d5140416a097160243f58270faa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37438 |
| Summary: | 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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