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Science Forum 2013 (www.scienceforum13.org) Breakout Session 4: Value Chains Delia Grace, ILRI
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Using value chains to leverage food safety in informal markets
Delia Grace, Program Leader Food Safety and Zoonoses, ILRITheme Leader, Agriculture Associated Diseases, CRP A4NH
Nutrition and health outcomes: targets for agricultural researchISPC, Bonn, 23-25th September, 2013
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Country PercentKenya 86Tanzania 95Uganda 90Rwanda 90Ethiopia 95Malawi 95Zambia 90Source, A. Omore, 2006
Percent milk marketed via informal markets in selected countries in the region
Why the informal sector matters
Country Super-markets
Angola 1
Botswana 42
DRC 0
Lesotho 4
Mauritius 12
Malawi 2
Mozambique 3
Namibia 35
Tanzania 5
Seychelles 0
Swaziland 18
Zambia 20
Zimbabwe 124
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Formal sector is not always better and informal is often persisting
Every study finds benefits of informal sector: especially for women and the poor
Hazards are not risks
Raw milk Pasteurised
100%Fail to meet standards
• Generates million of jobs• Raw milk earns more for the farmer
and costs less for the household• Consumers prefer taste and
provenance of local products
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How do risk-based approaches
differ from conventional public
health?
�Look at paths, as well as products
�Solution oriented not problem oriented
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Waste Disposal Utensils Cleaningregime
Cold storage Personalhygiene
Ingredientstorage
Preparation Selling areahygiene
Hyg
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Poor quality sweeetsGood or moderate quality sweets
Traditional FS focus on hygiene
Risk-based FS on where things go wrong
What is different between traders who sell safe dairy sweets and those who sell risky sweets?
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Risk mitigation
Average of 17.25 risk mitigation strategies used
Farmers who believed UA was legal used more strategies
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Managing food safety in informal
markets
�Innovations
�Incentives
�Institutions
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Example:
This study showed effective risk mitigation of informally-marketed milk by a traditional food processing
Incidence rate 19.7/1000
If not fermented,303.6/1000
Incentives & institutions
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Agriculture Associated Diseaseshttp://aghealth.wordpress.com/
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