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     L. to r.: ILRI staff and collaborators briefing local enumerators before field sampling efforts, Kamuli district, Uganda, Collecting information about pig farming in Uganda, Locally made beef stew sold in Bagnon market at Yopougon, Abidjan, Ivory Coast Photos: © ILRI Published by Safe Food, Fair Food: from capacity building to implementation. Risk-based approaches to improving food safety and market access in smallholder meat, milk and fish value chains in four African countries International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)   The challenge In Sub-Saharan Africa, millions of small-scale farmers effi-ciently supply the great majority of meat, milk and fish. Animal products have a high nutritional value which en-hances public health, while the production, transportation, processing and retailing of these products provide income and employment to millions. On the other hand, animal source foods are single most important source of food borne disease. About 80 % of the animal source foods are distributed through informal markets without adequate safety inspection, and as a result, most of the people living in the region are exposed to a variety of food-borne agents which can cause diarrhoea, fever, chronic wasting, abor-tions, or even epilepsy and cancer. These infections can have severely negative impacts on the population, including a higher infant mortality, and may contribute significantly to the region’s poverty. Conventional food safety policies often try and ban any product with germs (hazards) in it which can prevent small-scale farmers from marketing their products.  Our approach The Safe Food, Fair Food project adapts risk-based methods for food safety in informal markets. Risk analysis or risk-based decision making is the gold standard for food safety management in developed countries and is based on evi-dence, not perceptions. Structured analysis often shows that the risks of informally marketed food are not as high as  Project name Safe Food, Fair Food: from capacity building to implementation. Risk-based approaches to im-proving food safety and market access in small-holder meat, milk and fish value chains in four African countries: safefoodfairfood.wordpress.com Commissioned by Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)  Project region Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda Lead execut-ing agency International Livestock Research Institute      Contact person: Delia Grace        d.grace@cgiar.org German  cooperation Freie Universität Berlin (FUB); Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) Duration 03.2012 – 12.2015  Contact person Wolfgang Kasten wolfgang.kasten@giz.de   Published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für  Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH  Registered offices  Bonn and Eschborn, Germany  Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for                                     Development  Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5  65760 Eschborn, Germany  T +49 61 96 79-2149  F +49 61 96 79-11 15  beaf@giz.de   www.giz.de Author(s)  Kristina Rösel  Layout Nizar Omrani As at  July 2014 GIZ is responsible for the content of this publication. In cooperation with         On behalf of Federal Ministry for Economic   Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Division  Special Unit “One World - No Hunger” Addresses of  BMZ Bonn BMZ Berlin the BMZ offices  Dahlmannstraße 4  Stresemannstraße 94  53113 Bonn, Germany 10963 Berlin, Germany  T +49 (0)228 99 535-0  T +49 (0)30 18 535-0  F +49 (0)228 99 535-3500 F +49 (0)30 18 535-2501  poststelle@bmz.bund.de  www.bmz.de  Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; Biosciences Eastern and Central Africa-Hub, Kenya; Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, Ivory Coast; Makere University, Uganda; Agricultural Research Institute of Mozambique; Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan; Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania; University of Ghana, Ghana; University of Nairobi, Kenya; World Fish, Egypt   they are perceived. For example, in urban East Africa where almost all consumers boil their milk, the presence of germs in milk presents little risk. Moreover, when a sector gives a large amount of benefit to livelihoods and nutrition a small amount of risk may be tolerable. Risk-based approaches allow us to identify what are the points on the ‘farm to fork pathway’ where control is most useful. This often allows cheap and highly effective ways of making the food bought and sold by the poor safer. In developing countries, where data on disease occurrence is scarce, participatory methods generate information that is critical for effective risk man-agement. The benefits   A generic set of tools for an integrated assessment of food safety and nutrition was applied in five selected high-potential livestock value chains and identified constraints to and opportunities for improving food safety.    More than twenty facilitators were trained to conduct parti-cipatory rural appraisals on animal health, food safety and nutrition.    More than fifteen postgraduate students are undertak-ing thesis work and research projects.   On-going dissemination of results from the pre-vious phase to inform food safety decision-makers.  Expected impact If promoted widely, the approach of participatory risk ana-lysis can be applied and easily adopted to local needs and contexts in other developing countries. The current project builds directly on work supported by BMZ from 2008-2011. The partnerships established coupled with the integration of the project into high-potential value chains together with improved policy and practice will lead to tangible benefits for smallholders and other small-scale value chain actors including poor consumers.  The Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for De-velopment (BEAF) manages Germany’s contribution to in-ternational agricultural research. Instruments for imple-mentation are project funding, small grants and liaising be-tween German and international researchers. BEAF is part of GIZ and acts on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Eco-nomic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).    

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