IITA Food Safety Team engaging grain vendors during a food safety awareness outreach at Moniya Farmers’ Market in Nigeria.

Bringing Food Safety Knowledge to Moniya Farmers’ Market

Improving food safety requires practical solutions that reach the people who handle, store and sell food every day. In Moniya, Nigeria, the FoodSafety4Africa (FS4Africa) team at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) recently brought this approach directly to grain vendors through a market-based food safety awareness outreach. The activity

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FS4Africa Open Call 2: An Overview of the Response and Key Trends

The FS4Africa Open Call 2 attracted 276 proposals, demonstrating strong interest from Innovation Hubs and innovation-support organisations in contributing to safer food systems across Africa. The submissions show a broad geographical reach, with applicants from at least 50 countries across Africa and beyond. The largest number of proposals originated from

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FoodSafety4Africa and ITC representatives at the AGRA 2026 Business Forum in Gornja Radgona, Slovenia, discussing food safety innovation and sustainable agrifood systems.

FS4Africa at AGRA 2026: Connecting Innovation with Real-World Food Safety Needs

On 26 August 2026, FoodSafety4Africa was represented at the International Agriculture and Food Fair AGRA 2026 by consortium partner ITC – Innovation Technology Cluster, contributing the project’s perspective to discussions around food safety, innovation and sustainable transformation in agrifood systems. ITC’s participation provided an opportunity to highlight an important principle behind

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FS4AFRICA joins World Food Safety Day Symposium 2026

Every year on 7 June, the world observes World Food Safety Day, a global platform established by the United Nations to raise awareness of foodborne risks and inspire action to prevent, detect, and manage them. To mark this occasion, EU-funded research projects on food systems will convene a virtual symposium on

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