Dairy in Tanzania
Dairy in Tanzania
Food safety is one component of the dairy value chain development in Tanzania and integrated into the overall activities of CRP3.7 (Livestock and Fish) led by ILRI.
SFFF country coordinator: Prof. Lusato Kurwijila, Sokoine University of Agriculture country support by German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, BfR (Dres Juliane Bräunig, Alexandra Fetsch)
Activities 2012 1. Site selection (no SFFF participation)
2. Partners and actors landscape scoping for stakeholder engagement
3. Develop methods and tools for value chain assessment (April-June 2012)
- toolkit value chain assessment (as of June 20, 2012)
- guidelines rapid integrated assessment for food safety and nutrition (as of Nov 17, 2012)
4. Rapid value chain assessment
- compiled value chain assessment report by Anna Sikira and Honest Ndanu (MoreMilkIT project; August 19, 2012)
- Participatory epidemiology report by Honest Ndanu (SFFF; August 30, 2012)
- Animal health, food safety and zoonosis - risk identification and ranking in Morogoro and Tanga regions (report by MSc graduate Fredrick Onyango as of September 5, 2012)
- training of enumerators 1 + 2 by Kristina Roesel (November 2012)
- rapid integrated assessment of food safety and nutrition (ACIAR/SFFF)
- update Fortunate Shija and Ernesta Joseph (February 2013), MSc students working on hazard identification along the dairy value chain
- draft report "Rapid assessment of nutrition and health risks in informal dairy value chains in Tanzania", April 2013 (Barbara Haesler, RVC)
5. Situational analysis
- food safety component from SFFF1 by Prof. Lusato R. Kurwijila (SFFF; October 2011)
6. Review of (grey) literature, successes/failures, best-bet interventions
7. Identification of postgraduate students for intervention study
Activities year 2 (start April 2013)
8. Piloting of best-bet interventions
9. Continuous stakeholder engagement, dissemination of Findings
10. Upgraded curricula
