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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetTen ways to make fresh markets food safe
Special edition No. 1
2023Also available in:
No results found.Healthy food provides us the nutrients and energy to develop and grow, be active and healthy, to move, play, work, think and learn. But food, if not treated with care and respect, can also make us ill. Bacteria, viruses and parasites found in food can cause food poisoning. This is why food safety and hygiene are important. Each year, many Bangladeshis fall ill because of food poisoning. Fresh markets are very popular in Bangladesh, providing a range of essential produce at affordable prices, including fruit and vegetables, seafood, and meat. But poor hygiene practices can cause problems. What can be done to improve this? Fresh markets are an important place to start. A survey by FAO in 2018 shows that over 85 percent of households in Dhaka buy their food from fresh markets, and while the pandemic has impacted their popularity due to safety fears, they retain their appeal. This report shares ten priority measures that will make fresh markets safer places to go shopping and purchase food. They focus on practical and easy-to-implement practices, such as wearing masks, hand washing, and performing regular cleaning and safety checks. The below report shares the key actions to take place, as well as the problems that such actions helps to overcome. Implementing such food safety and hygiene practices makes fresh markets attractive; they transform them from sources of contamination and infection to pleasant public spaces and sources of food security and nutrition. In addition safe and clean markets increase incomes for vendors and brings better health to consumers. 1. Separate vegetable, fish, meat, and grocery stalls to prevent cross contamination 2. Prevent COVID spread by reducing over-crowding and implementing proper mask use 3. Provide filtered, clean water so vegetables, fish, poultry and meat can be well cleaned 4. Require hand washing at the entry of the fresh market and in the meat and fish areas 5. Improve waste management and pest control to ensure market hygiene 6. Ensure that areas where slaughter takes place are completely separated from sales areas 7. Raise awareness for the need for pre-slaughter health examination, post-slaughter inspection, and basic food safety practice in meat shops 8. Make sure drains are clean, covered, sloped, and well maintained 9. Require cold storage for perishable items 10. Develop regular monitoring systems -
BookletCOVID-19 and the impact on food security in the Near East and North Africa: How to respond? 2020Since the declaration by WHO of the COVID-19 as a Global Pandemic on 15 March, governments of the Near East and North Africa region have imposed a series of measures to slow down the spread of the disease. This policy brief aims at summarizing the potential impacts of COVID-19 and associated measures on agriculture and food security in the region and proposes measures to mitigate the impacts on food security and nutrition with special attention to the most vulnerable segments of societies. Ample food supplies exist globally despite COVID-19’s impacts. COVID-19 has considerably disrupted the world supply chains around the world and raised the spectre of food unavailability. Despite these worries, global cereal markets are expected to remain balanced and comfortable. While localized disruptions, largely due to logistical issues, pose challenges to food supply chains in some markets, their anticipated duration and magnitude are unlikely to have a significant effect on global food markets, at least in the medium term. Food supplies and reserves are satisfactory in most countries in the NENA region, but worries remain for countries affected by conflicts and instability. The situation of food availability in the NENA region is generally in line with global level, with cereals reserves at a satisfactory level in most countries, despite the region is highly dependent on cereal imports and therefore vulnerable to global markets disruption. Prospects for cereal production in 2020 are generally good, with the exception of the Maghreb where drought and above-average temperatures have impacted cereal production
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Book (series)Negotiated territorial development in a multi-stakeholders participatory Resource Planning approach: an initial sustainable framework for the Near east Region 2016
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No results found.Throughout the Near East, land and water shortages, land degradation, out of date land tenure systems and food insecurity are compounded by asymmetries in gender roles and power, by severe imbalances in the political-military structures within and between countries, by flagrant deficiencies in land and water management and control systems, and by the incessant increases in demand driven by high rates of population growth and urbanization. This interplay of forces and dynamics form a complex hydr o socio-political web that governs the allocation land and water and who benefits from their availability and their ultimate sustainability. The current allocation arrangements of the region's three major river basins - the Nile, the Euphrates-Tigris and the Jordan - are nascent sources of tension, and potential sources of conflict and violence. Political instability that characterizes the Near East continues to intensify scarcity, suppresses growth and engenders poverty and is being increasingl y exacerbated by the impending consequences of climate change. The Middle East is one of the most water poor and water stressed regions of the globe. While the region is home to 5.1% of the people of the world, it has about only 1% of the world renewable fresh water. Today's annual per capita availability of fresh water in the region is only one seventh of its 1960 level, falling from 3,300 cubic metres per person in 1960 to less than 500 cubic metres in 2015. This is the lowest per capita wat er availability in the world. The current land tenure systems are failing to address long-standing problems that include smallholder farmers, landless households and most marginalized groups such as women continue to compete for shrinking natural recourses, while pastoralists are losing control of their traditional grazing areas. Use, management and access to land and water are becoming extremely sensitive matters as the number of users grows. Governments and local actors have often perceived these major issues differently. This requires effort to be made to ensure a participatory approach to decision-making that effectively involves all the local actors concerned in an equitable and balanced manner. About 90% of the land area in this Region is subject to land degradation in different forms and over 45% of land suitable to farming is exposed to various types of land degradation which include soil nutrient depletion, salinity and wind and water erosion. Per capita arable land availa bility in the region is among the lowest in the world where many countries in the region show levels that are exceptionally low (on average less than 0.123 hectares per person) and the range varies between 0.01 hectares per person (Oman, Qatar, Palestine, Kuwait and Bahrain) to 0.34 hectares in the Sudan in 2015. Arable land as a percentage of land area in the region is very low ranging between 0.1% in Oman to 18.4% in Tunisia in 2013. Most of the countries in the region show shares below 10%. O nly Morocco, Tunisia, and Iraq sow percentages above 10%. Irrigated land areas in the region also represent a small share of total arable land areas. In many of the countries in the region these shares are way below the world average. Only Iran (17.4%) and the UAE (12.5%) show high relative shares in the period 2011-2015. The Region’s critical shortage of water and cultivable land, including the increasing pressure on these resources and their degradation makes their efficient management a pa ramount task. It will be necessary in this regard to promote the engagement of all concerned stakeholders in planning and managing land, water and agrobiodiversity. Actual physical scarcity of land and water, even in the Middle East region, is not the only key issue. Conditions of economic scarcity seem to be equally pressing; there is perhaps enough land and water to meet society's need, but there are few incentives for wise, efficient and egalitarian use of these critical resources. Climate change will impinge on this region’s fragile water balances, suitable land for cultivation, grazing land and food production capacities and will exacerbate the problems and issues of food security. Measures, policies, strategies and institutional capacities to mitigate the impending catastrophic consequences of climate change and to improve the societies’ resilience and adaptation to its consequences are needed now. The sooner the regulatory and institutional setups are put in place the easier the task to deal with climate and other risks. It is necessary and vital to rise up to this challenge by enlisting the stakeholders in the initiatives to promote sustainability and efficiency of land and water use and the management of food security issues. An active engagement of concerned stakeholders in planning and managing water, land and agrobiodiversity necessitates first and foremost the engagement of and participation of particularly women and girls and marginalized groups in all wate r and food aspects as they constitute the main agricultural labour force and the most deprived segments of society. Gender and the water and land nexus in the Arab region is an area where there is still relative little information. There is little systematic knowledge about the many means by which women and men manage water and land in the region. Evidence shows that while women in Egypt have a significant role to play in water use in the process of food production by controlling and managi ng water flows in the fields and supervising workers during irrigation, they rarely own the land they cultivate. Rural women in Yemen spend huge amounts of time collecting and transporting water, often up and down steep slopes and coordinate water allocation and distribution for the various needs of the family and the household but they are rarely involved in decision making and management councils that govern land and water uses. Women everywhere in the Middle East evaluate water quantity and q uality and prioritize water for drinking and health and sanitation purposes but they rarely share equally in the benefits of their labor or in the ownership of the land and water resources. This is why an integrated water and land management system anchored on a genuine participation of stakeholders will be crucial in determining whether the Arab world achieves the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and aspirations for reducing poverty and enhancing shared prosperity. Water and land are the c ommon currency which links nearly every SDG, and it will be a critical determinant of success. Abundant water supplies and cultivable land are vital for the production of food and will be essential to attaining SDG 2 on food security; clean and safe drinking water and sanitation systems are necessary for health as called for in SDGs 3 and 6; and water is needed for powering industries and creating the new jobs identified in SDGs 7 and 8. None of this is achievable without adequate and safe water and sufficient suitable land to nourish the planet’s life-sustaining ecosystem services identified in SDGs 13, 14 and 15.
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