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By Patience Gbeze, RNG
Accra, June 6, GNA – Foods and Drugs
(FDA) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO) is implementing the project "Incentive Measures for Healthy Food" (HSFI), a
intervention program to induce behavioral change in providers
training.
The project, piloted in the Korle
Klotey Sub-Metropolitan Assembly, seeks to meet many challenges
facing the street food sector, more specifically aimed at developing a
resource-saving food monitoring system; stimulate demand and supply of
healthy and nutritious fruits and vegetables; motivate street vendors to
register; and generate revenue to develop the sector.
It will improve the food safety system by
the sector by impacting vendor knowledge through awareness / training
workshops, giving them the means to make food safety their
at home as well as their sales sites.
The workshop is intended for members of Aboriginal communities.
Catering Association and the Association of Traditional Caterers in Accra for
help food vendors to deepen their knowledge of good hygiene practices and
nutrition to promote a healthy life.
At the end of the training session, the salespeople
will be enrolled in the pilot project.
Mrs. Isabella Mensah Agrah, Deputy Chief
Director of the FDA, said that street foods were an important
proportion of daily urban food consumption of millions of low and middle people
middle-income consumers thus becoming the main source of nutrition for
majority of Ghanaians.
She said that the project, among other things,
increase the number of sellers with Good compliant sales permits
Hygiene practices and increase the sale and consumption of fruits and vegetables
vegetables.
She urged all providers to make food security a
key priority in their activities from buying raw materials to the
markets through transport, preparation and service to consumers.
This, she said, would greatly contribute to
reduce outbreaks of food-borne diseases in the country, while increasing
their clientele according to their income and hence the improvement of the
economy.
"Let's be all the ambbadadors of food security for
improve our health, "he added.
In a speech read for Mr. Abebe
Hailee-Gabriel, Regional Representative for FAO in Africa, said: "As we prepare for
commemorate the first World Food Security Day today, June 7, it is
It is essential to think of innovative ways to make our street foods safe for all. "
He said
in today's fast-growing urbanization, food has become one of
easier and faster ready to eat food for a lot of the middle clbad and
students but "this rapidly growing sector is facing many challenges such as
Informality and above all the nutritional safety of food – which can
pose health problems to consumers ".
"While these street foods are considered
a crucial tool for poverty reduction and food security in many middle-income countries.
developing countries, it is essential to help this growing sector to
meet safety standards.
Mr. Hailee-Gabriel referred to the initiative to
restructure the entire street vending industry by making nutritious products
and safely came at a convenient time to reach a zero hungry
world / poverty reduction.
Achieving food security
should never be reduced to individual success stories, but rather be
on the collective efforts of all stakeholders, he added.
"This exercise of registration has
synchronizes with one of the recommendations regarding the informal treatment of
the street food distributors sector. C & # 39;
one of the many objectives of this pilot project. "
"As
we all join the world community to celebrate World Food Day, it's my hope
we keep in mind that the fight against hunger and malnutrition is achievable
only when we work together, consumers and sellers of food products. "
Mr. Hailee-Gabriel stated that the progress made in
achieving food security and a secure nation / country is happening step by step.
step, and each victory becomes a platform on which the next could be built.
"We can all come together behind this commendable
FAO and FDA initiative to make our street food more nutritious and safer
until we have raised the safety standards of our street food high enough to
turn the whole country into a food security center. "
GNA
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