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Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities

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Title Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities
 
Creator Grace, Delia
Randolph, Thomas F.
Olawoye, J.
Dipelou, M.
Kang'ethe, Erastus K.
 
Description Women play the major role in food supply in developing countries, but too often their ability to feed their families properly is compromised; the result is high levels of food-borne disease and consequent limited access to higher-value markets. We argue that risk-based approaches - current best practice for managing food safety in developed countries - require adaptation to the difficult context of informal markets. We suggest participatory research and gender analysis as boundary-spanning mechanisms, bringing communities and food-safety implementers together to analyse food-safety problems and develop workable solutions. Examples show how these methodologies can contribute to operationalising risk-based approaches in urban settings and to the development of a new approach to assessing and managing food safety in poor countries, which we call 'participatory risk analysis'.
 
Date 2010-03-02T06:40:34Z
2010-03-02T06:40:34Z
2008-08
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Grace, D., Randolph T.F., Olawoye, J., Dipelou, M. and Kang’ethe, E. 2008. Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities. Development in Practice 18(4-5): 611-618.
http://hdl.handle.net/10568/743
 
Language en
 
Source Development in Practice