11 Ιούνιος 2025Offers up to €60,000 per project in funding for innovative solutions FS4Africa, a Horizon Europe-funded project dedicated to transforming food safety systems across the African continent, has officially launched its first Open Call for innovative solutions. With a total budget of €600,000, the initiative will provide financial support to at
10 Ιούνιος 2025On the occasion of World Food Safety Day 2025, four EU-funded initiatives — FCI4Africa, FoodSafety4Africa, HealthyDiets4Africa, and the Uprise Food Safety Project — came together to host the “World Food Safety Day Symposium for Next Gen Food Safety Practitioners.” With over 150 registrations, this online gathering, held on 4 and
22 Μάιος 2025In Africa, food safety goes far beyond hygiene—it is a matter of survival and well-being. Millions are exposed daily to foodborne illnesses caused by microbes, pesticide residues, and adulterants. According to the World Health Organization, foodborne hazards cause 137,000 deaths and 91 million illnesses annually. The World Bank estimates food
09 Μάιος 2025From April 24th to 25th, 2025, the International SOLID Symposium took place, focusing on the theme: Prospects and Applications of FAIR Linked Data Spaces. The event provided an opportunity to showcase the FS4Africa project through a poster presentation and a lively three-hour discussion during the VODAN/FCI4Africa session on Interoperability. The
05 Μάιος 2025My journey in the quest for data on food hazards in the Informal Sector By Folasade Oladiti (Graduate Research Fellow at IITA under the FS4Africa project) The first step towards solving a problem is knowing there is a problem and how much of a problem there is. Food hazards pose
29 Απρίλιος 2025FS4Africa has recently formalised collaborations with a series of transformative initiatives to boost food safety, strengthen innovation, and enhance resilience across African food systems. These partnerships bring together diverse strengths, ranging from digital infrastructure and research excellence to local empowerment and climate-smart solutions, laying the groundwork for a more transparent,
24 Απρίλιος 2025From 7 to 9 April 2025, the historic city of Salzburg hosted the 15th edition of the World Mycotoxin Forum®, a globally respected platform where science, innovation, and policy converge to address one of the most enduring threats to the global food and feed supply: mycotoxins. This year’s theme, “Building
17 Ιανουάριος 2025To enhance food safety and quality in Kenya’s informal sector, Egerton University, in collaboration with the County Governments of Elgeyo Marakwet, Meru, Baringo, Nakuru and Siaya, conducted extensive farmer training sessions between August and November 2024, within the framework of the FS4Africa EU-funded project. These sessions focused on improving groundnut
27 Νοέμβριος 2024In a remarkable development for food safety in Africa, the FS4Africa EU project formalised a critical partnership with three local governments in Ibadan, Oyo State. The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the prestigious International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) marked a new era of collaboration, bringing together
30 Οκτώβριος 2024On August 13, 2024, the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security (CoE-FS) and FoodSafety4Africa hosted a hybrid stakeholder engagement, the Food Imbizo at the ProteaHotel@Hatfield in Pretoria. The event brought together 97 attendees—50 in person and 47 online—including researchers, policymakers, civil society, and the private sector. This diverse group
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