To commemorate World Food Safety Day, we take a look at how creative food processor trainings are helping improve consumer safety in Africa--and prove especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The new Feed the Future EATSafe: Evidence and Action Towards Safe Nutritious Food activity is working to empower consumers to recognize good food safety practices and demand safe food from...
New research from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition (NIL) tells us that exposure to mycotoxins through the diet is widespread in resource-constrained areas of the world. These...
On February 2, 2020, Bangladesh celebrated National Food Safety Day across the country with a pledge to ensure safe food for all. In 2018 the Government of Bangladesh designated this...
Join the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD) for a series of online events from June 8 - June 11, 2020 at 11 am - 12 pm EDT...
How is COVID-19 and the government of Senegal’s response to the pandemic affecting the fishing industry as a whole, specifically the entrepreneurs, laborers, and consumers dependent on seafood for their...
In 2019, an expert team led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in partnership with the African Union (AU) consulted with food safety experts representing a number of African...
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety recently funded a research collaboration to identify the extent of microbial and fungal contaminants in groundnuts that are produced and consumed...
June 7 marks the second annual World Food Safety Day - this year with a theme of “Food Safety is Everyone’s Business.” This week on Agrilinks, we will be sharing...
January 25, 2017 This is the third event in the Livestock & Household Nutrition Learning Series, convened by Land O’Lakes International Development and the International Livestock Research Institute and funded...
Feed the Future has, along with partners, recently unearthed some powerful findings on how to make systems for producing and delivering breeder and foundation seed (aka early generation seed) work...
Having access to finance is crucial for facilitating expansion and scale of small and growing businesses (SGBs). SGBs are commercially viable businesses with significant potential for growth that seek growth...
Meeting food safety standards is an increasing constraint to market access for farmers in developing countries. Recent studies show that the global health burden of foodborne disease (FBD) is equivalent...
From India and Ethiopia to Malawi and Madagascar, interactive voice response (IVR) is increasingly being used by agricultural extension services. Often detested by Americans because of overuse in customer service...
March's Climate-Smart Agriculture Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (GLEE) took place in Lusaka, Zambia. The USAID Bureau for Food Security, in collaboration with the USAID/Zambia Mission and others, planned this...
Correctly applied pesticides and fertilizers can significantly increase yields. But many smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are reluctant to invest in these inputs out of concern that they' will receive...
Nov 12, 2015Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Many smallholder farmers rely on local seed varieties to produce staple food crops. Distributed through informal systems, farmers select varieties based on a number of factors including environmental considerations, socioeconomic...
We moved "Ask Ag" off Twitter and onto Agrilinks! Browse the comments section of this event page for an in-depth discussion with no character limit!Improved seed, fertilizer and water securing...
May 20, 2015Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Mycotoxins are toxic by-products of naturally occurring fungi that have serious health implications in humans and livestock. Found on grains, fruits and vegetables, acute and long-term exposure is associated with...
