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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

United States * Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

The mission of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety (FSIL) is to reduce the burden of foodborne illness and break the cycle of disease, malnutrition, and food insecurity. Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), FSIL leverages extensive experience in international food safety research, education, and extension to develop and manage a portfolio of food safety and capacity development projects in Africa and Asia.

A consumer in a Nepali market picks up a radish.

Food Systems in Transition: Food Loss and Waste, Food Quality Loss and Food Safety

Dr. Jocelyn Boiteau is spurring conversations about qualitative food loss — including food quality and food safety losses — on food security.

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

Sep 21, 2023

Food Loss and Waste Food Safety Nutrition

Students and researchers at the statistics workshop.

Intensive Course Strengthens Statistics Capacity for Cambodian-Led Agricultural Research

In Cambodia, Food Safety Innovation Lab partners held an intensive statistics course to support locally led food systems research.

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

Amanda Garris

Sep 01, 2023

Education and Extension Food Safety Policy and Governance

Overhead view of an open-air market in Cambodia.

Surveys Identify Potential Barriers to Food Safety Behavior Change in Cambodia’s Vegetable Value Chain

Researchers are charting a path to strengthening the safety of vegetables sold in Cambodia’s informal markets, informed by behavior change theory.

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

Amanda Garris

Aug 29, 2023

Education and Extension Food Safety Nutrition

Group photo of Senegalese scientists who participated in training on food safety in dairy led by Dr. Woubit Abebe.

Detecting Foodborne Pathogens in Dairy: Strengthening Research Partnerships and Capacity in Senegal

The Food Safety Innovation Lab’s milk and dairy food safety project is partnering with Senegalese research institutions to strengthen local capacity to detect foodborne pathogens.

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

Aug 09, 2023

Food Safety

Portrait of Ram Hari Timilsina, associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology at Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU) in Nepal.

Leading Extension Efforts in Food Safety in Nepal: Ram Hari Timilsina

Ram Hari Timilsina is on course to innovate in food safety outreach and spark policy change in Nepal.

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

Aug 08, 2023

Education and Extension Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Nutrition Policy and Governance

A consumer purchases vegetables at a market in Chitwan, Nepal.

Consumer Demand, Food Safety, and Market Systems

Dr. Aditya Khanal provides an introduction to how consumer demand for food safety can be used to increase the availability of safe, nutritious food within market systems.

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

Jul 19, 2023

Food Safety Markets and Trade

Finding a Way Forward: Safer Fish for Bangladeshi Consumers

Researchers with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety identify the top challenges for food safety in Bangladeshi fish consumption.

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

Amanda Garris

Jun 19, 2023

Food Safety Nutrition

Dr. Samina Luthfa: A Gender Lens on Food Safety in Bangladesh

Meet Dr. Samina Luthfa, gender expert and activist-researcher with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety project in Bangladesh.

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

Jun 15, 2023

Food Safety Gender

Three researchers in Cambodia working with lab equipment.

Whole Genome Sequencing Training Helps Cambodian Scientists Pinpoint Pathogen Sources in the Food Supply Chain

Recent training in whole genome sequencing has equipped researchers at three Cambodian institutions to pinpoint precisely where contamination with foodborne pathogens is occurring in the supply chain.