Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities

Delia Grace, Tom Randolph, Janice Olawoye, Morenike Dipelou and Erastus Kang'ethe

Development in Practice, 2008, vol. 18, issue 4-5, 611-618

Abstract: Women play the major role in food supply in developing countries, but too often their ability to feed their families properly is compromised; the result is high levels of food-borne disease and consequent limited access to higher-value markets. We argue that risk-based approaches – current best practice for managing food safety in developed countries – require adaptation to the difficult context of informal markets. We suggest participatory research and gender analysis as boundary-spanning mechanisms, bringing communities and food-safety implementers together to analyse food-safety problems and develop workable solutions. Examples show how these methodologies can contribute to operationalising risk-based approaches in urban settings and to the development of a new approach to assessing and managing food safety in poor countries, which we call ‘participatory risk analysis’.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/09614520802181731

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