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Agrilinks hosts month-long focus on food safety

Including two contributions featuring the Safe Food, Fair Food Africa project: Food Safety in Informal Markets in Low-Income Countries Gender Considerations in Informal Food Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa AgHealth Fish market in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (photo credit: WorldFish/Jamie Oliver)...

  • Kristina Rösel
ILRI News

Empowering ruminant livestock enterprises in Mali—A Feed the Future-ILRI project

A woman milks one of her goats in Mali (photo credit: ILRI/Valentin Bognan Koné). The Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program is a three-year initiative (2016–2019) promoting inclusive growth of all actors adding value to the production and marketing of ruminant livestock in this...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
ILRI News

Scaling up use of livestock technologies in Mali—progress of a Feed the Future program

The Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program is a three-year initiative (2016–2019) promoting inclusive growth of all the actors involved in adding value to the production and marketing of ruminant livestock in this large, and largely livestock-dependent, West African country. The...

  • Ewen Le Borgne
Africa RISING feed

Shallow wells cushion smallholders in Mali and Ghana from the effects of climate variability

Shortage of water supply for domestic and livestock consumption, high temperatures associated with erosive and turbulent winds, poor rainfall patterns, and poor vegetation cover are just but a few of the common impacts of climate variability globally. In the Sahel region of Africa, these impacts...

  • Jonathan Odhong
Safe Food Fair Food blog

Free e-version of book on food safety in informal markets in sub-Saharan Africa now available

We are pleased to announce that the book, Food Safety and Informal Markets: Animal Products in Sub-Saharan Africa , edited by Kristina Roesel and Delia Grace of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), is now freely available online as an open access resource. The book was published...

  • Kristina Rösel
Safe Food Fair Food blog

Safe Food, Fair Food: more than 20 project outputs in 2013

In 2013 the partners in the ILRI -led and BMZ-funded project Safe Food Fair Food spent most of their time in the field conducting rapid assessments and baseline surveys in Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda. Nonetheless, a number of publications were finalized. Nine more students from the...

  • Kristina Rösel
Safe Food Fair Food blog

Safe Food, Fair Food project communication now available in English, French and Portuguese

During our writeshop in November 2012 , some of the outputs we finalized were a poster (see below) and a factsheet for a wider dissemination of our project goals and achievements. We took advantage of the linguistic diversity of our group’s participants and the factsheet was translated in...

  • Kristina Rösel
Safe Food Fair Food blog

Safe Food Fair Food writeshop

Hosted by the colleagues from the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques (CSRS), a 10-member team from East, West and Southern Africa came to Grand Bassam near Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire for a writeshop from 5 to 9 November 2012. The main objective of the writeshop was to review and finalize a...

  • Kristina Rösel
Safe Food Fair Food blog

Safe Food Fair Food – July 2012 update

Congratulations to Professor Tano-Debrah and his students in Ghana (SFFF1): Kennedy Bomfeh in Ghana was awarded his M.Phil. in Food Science in July 2012 and Joy Appiah has just submitted his thesis. The soft copies will soon be posted in our ILRI repositor y. Ethiopia: In July and early August, Dr...

  • Kristina Rösel