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)**
 * Targeting Tanzania
 * Pre site selection scoping study


 * 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