This is a website of Safe food, fair food: Building capacity to improve the safety of animal-source foods and ensure continued market access for poor farmers in sub Saharan Africa.

This is a project proposed and run by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and funded by the German organization, BMZ. We are also working with other partners together; Promotion of Private Sector Development in Agriculture (PSDA)/GTZ and University of Hohenheim.

The purpose is to establish capacity for the sustainable promotion of risk-based approaches to improve food safety and participation of the poor in informal markets of livestock products in the region. Eight countries in East, West and South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Mozambique and Republic of South Africa, are involved in this project

This website is designed for member countries to exchange informaton but the access to some part of this site is open for public, because we wish to share ideas and information with anybody for working together to contribute to the developing countries.

On September 2011, Safe food fair food (SFFF) project presented 10 oral presentations and 13 posters at the 1st International Congress on Pathogens at the Human-Animal Interface (ICOPHAI) held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  Also, one study on risk of staphylococcal poisoning through milk and home-made yoghurt consumption in Ethiopia was published from the Intenational Journal of Food Microbiology recently.

The SFFF started in 2008 and at the begining only four risk assessment studies were planned. We showed a significant impact on food safety research in sub-Saharan Africa: 23 studies by post graduate students. The SFFF is now approaching to a successful finale at the end of December 2011.

Thank you very much for your support and interest towards our project. We are looking forward to the next step of pro-poor research on food safety in informal markets and continued market access by smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.

2011 Dec 20 by Kohei Makita