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Review of food safety training in low- and middle-income countries
This EatSafe report presents evidence that will help engage and empower consumers and market actors to better obtain safe nutritious food. It will be used to design and test consumer-centered food safety interventions in traditional markets through the EatSafe program. In this synthesis review, EatSafe evaluates the characteristics of successful food safety training interventions with the goal to inform EatSafe’s own interventions in Nigerian and Ethiopian traditional food markets. Previous EatSafe research has identified how food safety trainings have been developed as a standalone intervention or one component of a broader intervention package, seeking to increase the knowledge of consumers, vendors, and other food value chain actors. However, the characteristics that underlie intervention efficacy have yet to be explored in detail. Therefore, EatSafe assessed 16 food safety training approaches using a qualitative evaluation framework, or a list of behavioral theory-based research questions on training approach, audience, context, and training curricula.
Recommended Citation: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. 2022. Review of Existing Food Safety Training Processes in Africa and Asia. A USAID EatSafe Project Report.
Acknowledgements: This report was written by Judy Bettridge, Lian Thomas, Florence Mutua, Himadri Pal, and Delia Grace, with useful feedback provided by Elisabetta Lambertini, Haley Swartz, Abby Reich, and Ariel Garsow
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Child-centered food systems: reorienting food systems towards healthy diets for children
Current food systems are failing to guide children towards healthy diets. This paper presents a tool to identify the actions needed to reorient food systems to become more child-centred from a nutrition perspective. To connect the dots between children's lives, their food environments and food supply systems, the tool takes a child-centred, food systems approach. Comprising six methodological steps, the tool starts by measuring and understanding children's realities and then working back up into the system to identify how food environments and supply systems could make relevant foods more or less available, affordable, appealing and aspirational in the contexts of children's lives. The paper spells out the mix of methods needed to make this assessment, gives examples of the data and studies already available and type of insights they provide, and discusses the methodological challenges and gaps. It presents a worked example that shows how following these steps in sequence enables the identification of a package of actions that can act coherently to reorient food systems in the way most likely to have impact on child malnutrition