The Safe Food Imperative : Accelerating Progress in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Lead Authors -- About the Contributors -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Food Safety Context -- Aims and Audiences -- Study Methods -- Structure of the Report -- 1. Why Safe Food Matters to Economic Development -- Introduction -- Food Safety and the Sustainable Development Goals -- Understanding the Socioeconomic Impacts of Unsafe Food -- The Food Safety Life Cycle -- Summary -- References -- 2. Evidence on the Burden of Unsafe Food in Low- and Middle-Income Countries -- Introduction -- The Public Health Burden of Foodborne Disease -- Economic Costs of Foodborne Disease -- Food Safety Risks in LMIC Domestic Markets -- The Costs of Domestic Food Safety Failures -- The Costs of Food Safety Failures in Trade -- Summary -- References -- 3. The Status of Food Safety Management in Developing Countries -- Food Safety Capacity -- Factors That Motivate Food Safety Capacity and Behavioral Change -- Benchmarking Food Safety Capacity -- The Public Sector's Capacities for Managing Domestic Food Safety Risks -- The Alternatives to Public Regulation -- Enabling Smallholder Farmers to Be Food Safety Compliant -- The State of Capacities for Managing Trade-Related Food Safety Risks -- Moving toward Risk-Based Imported Food Controls -- Summary -- References -- 4. Strengthening Food Safety Management Systems -- Introduction -- Steps toward a More Effective Food Safety Policy Framework -- Better Implementation: Moving from Policy to Action -- References -- 5. The Way Forward -- Conclusions -- A Call to Action for Various Stakeholders -- Priorities among Countries at Different Stages of the Food Safety Life Cycle -- Reference -- Boxes -- ES.1 Recommendations for Stakeholders in the Food Safety Life Cycle