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Despite its health benefits, vegetable consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa is below recommended levels. This report is part of a larger project, aiming to pilot and scale innovative approaches within the food systems of Benin, Mali and Burkina Faso to improve consumption of safe vegetables. The aim of this report is to obtain insights into the vegetable consumption behaviour of urban consumers in Benin. For this purpose, a literature review was conducted. Results were reviewed and validated by relevant experts in the field of nutrition, health, and food safety in Benin. This was important as most relevant literature referred to the larger context of West Africa. This report describes the results for Benin and identifies potential entry points for enhancing the consumption of safe vegetables.
One of the major knowledge challenges in the domain of Resilient and Sustainable Food Systems refers to the integration of perspectives on consumption, patterns that support public health, inclusive value chains, and environmentally sustainable food production. While there is a long record of the analysis of separate interventions, this special issue generates integrated insights, provides cross-cutting perspectives, and outlines practical and policy solutions that address these global challenges.
Despite the health benefits that vegetables provide, their consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa is below recommended levels. This report is part of the larger SafeVeg project, aiming to pilot and scale innovative approaches within the food systems of Benin, Mali, and Burkina Faso, to improve consumption of safe vegetables. The goal of this report was to obtain insights into the vegetable consumption behaviours of urban consumers in Mali. For this purpose, a literature review was conducted – the results of which were reviewed and validated by relevant experts in the field of nutrition, health, and food safety in Mali. This report describes the results for Mali and identifies potential entry points for enhancing safe vegetable consumption.
Despite the health benefits that vegetables provide, their consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa is below recommended levels. This report is part of the larger SafeVeg project, aiming to pilot and scale innovative approaches within the food systems of Benin, Mali, and Burkina Faso, to improve consumption of safe vegetables. The goal of this report was to obtain insights into the vegetable consumption behaviours of urban consumers in Burkina Faso. For this purpose, a literature review was conducted – the results of which were reviewed and validated by relevant experts in the field of nutrition, health, and food safety in Burkina Faso. This report describes the results for Burkina Faso and identifies potential entry points for enhancing safe vegetable consumption.
Insights into consumer attitudes, knowledge, demands, and barriers can help food system researchers in designing interventions to more effectively increase healthy and safe food consumption. This report is part of a larger project and a series of reports, aiming to pilot and scale innovative approaches within the food systems of Benin, Mali and Burkina Faso to improve consumption of safe vegetables. The aim of this report is to obtain insights into consumers’ perceptions of accessibility, acceptability and safety of vegetables in Benin. For this purpose a survey was conducted among 1,577 respondents in four urban and peri-urban areas in Benin. This report describes the results of the consumer survey for Benin and discusses potential entry points for enhancing the consumption of safe vegetables.
Insights into consumer attitudes, knowledge, demands, and barriers can help food system researchers in designing interventions to more effectively increase healthy and safe food consumption. This report is part of a larger project and a series of reports, aiming to pilot and scale innovative approaches within the food systems of Benin, Mali and Burkina Faso to improve consumption of safe vegetables. The aim of this report is to obtain insights into consumers’ perceptions of accessibility, acceptability and safety of vegetables in Burkina Faso. For this purpose a survey was conducted among 1,011 respondents in two urban and periurban areas in Burkina Faso. This report describes the results of the consumer survey for Burkina Faso and discusses potential entry points for enhancing the consumption of safe vegetables.
Insights into consumer attitudes, knowledge, demands, and barriers can help food system researchers in designing interventions to more effectively increase healthy and safe food consumption. This report is part of a larger project and a series of reports, aiming to pilot and scale innovative approaches within the food systems of Benin, Mali and Burkina Faso to improve consumption of safe vegetables. The aim of this report is to obtain insights into consumers’ perceptions of accessibility, acceptability and safety of vegetables in Mali. For this purpose a survey was conducted among 1,266 respondents in four urban and peri-urban areas in Mali. This report describes the results of the consumer survey for Mali and discusses potential entry points for enhancing the consumption of safe vegetables.
This policy review aimed (i) to investigate how urgencies such as urbanisation and climate change are recognised in the current policies of a low-income country, and (ii) to investigate how food security, and urban food security in particular, interacts with these policies. Ghana is used as an example. The policy review revealed that the agricultural, nutrition and health, spatial development and climate policies dealt with one or more aspects of food security within the food system framework. The overall conclusion is that the aspects of food security are still covered by the traditional policies: agriculture mainly deals with production, distribution and exchange of food. Nutritional value...