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Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities
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Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities
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Grace, Delia
Randolph, Thomas F. Olawoye, J. Dipelou, M. Kang'ethe, Erastus K. |
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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'.
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2010-03-02T06:40:34Z
2010-03-02T06:40:34Z 2008-08 |
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Journal Article
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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 |
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en
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Development in Practice
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