About the Project
Across Africa, food safety challenges remain unsolved largely due to weak value chain organization, inadequate traceability, and authentication mechanisms. In this context, the EU-funded FS4Africa project, led by a consortium of experts from Africa and Europe, aims to revolutionize food safety systems, particularly in the informal sector, through policy development, capacity building, innovative technology, and sustainable development implementation.
Within this project, the Africa Food Safety Operators Network provides the mapping of the food safety ecosystem in Africa, with interactive databases enabling exchanges and linkages, built upon combined matrix of food safety procedures for both the formal and the informal sector value chains, from agriculture production to food processing to distribution, featuring the continental and regional food safety frameworks and initiatives in Africa, the food safety profile of the countries’ partners in this project, together with databases of the food safety regulations and standards agencies, the business-related food organizations, certified agri-food companies and food business operators (FBOs).
This program aims at supporting Africa intra-trade and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) within the African Union Food Safety strategy, by providing common African food standards together with the profile of the food safety actors in Africa.
