Incentives and subsidies for farmer adoption of food safety technologies
Unsafe food is a major cause of disease in developing countries, accounting for an estimated 2 million deaths per year globally and comprising a burden of illness comparable to that of malaria or tuberculosis (WHO, 2015). Reducing the risk of foodborne disease typically requires improvements in food...
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| author | Hoffmann, Vivian Jones, Kelly M. |
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| description | Unsafe food is a major cause of disease in developing countries, accounting for an estimated 2 million deaths per year globally and comprising a burden of illness comparable to that of malaria or tuberculosis (WHO, 2015). Reducing the risk of foodborne disease typically requires improvements in food production, processing, and handling practices from farm to fork. However, inducing these changes in the absence of effective regulatory enforcement is challenging because food safety is unobservable and is generally not rewarded by higher prices in markets. In Kenya, a prominent public health concern is contamination of maize, a major staple crop, with the fungal byproduct aflatoxin. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1478622025-11-06T05:43:24Z Incentives and subsidies for farmer adoption of food safety technologies Hoffmann, Vivian Jones, Kelly M. foodborne diseases diseases health farmers crops cereals technology maize food safety markets incentives farms subsidies Unsafe food is a major cause of disease in developing countries, accounting for an estimated 2 million deaths per year globally and comprising a burden of illness comparable to that of malaria or tuberculosis (WHO, 2015). Reducing the risk of foodborne disease typically requires improvements in food production, processing, and handling practices from farm to fork. However, inducing these changes in the absence of effective regulatory enforcement is challenging because food safety is unobservable and is generally not rewarded by higher prices in markets. In Kenya, a prominent public health concern is contamination of maize, a major staple crop, with the fungal byproduct aflatoxin. 2017-04 2024-06-21T09:23:25Z 2024-06-21T09:23:25Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147862 en application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Hoffmann, Vivian; and Jones, Kelly M. 2017. Incentives and subsidies for farmer adoption of food safety technologies. Project Note. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147862 |
| spellingShingle | foodborne diseases diseases health farmers crops cereals technology maize food safety markets incentives farms subsidies Hoffmann, Vivian Jones, Kelly M. Incentives and subsidies for farmer adoption of food safety technologies |
| title | Incentives and subsidies for farmer adoption of food safety technologies |
| title_full | Incentives and subsidies for farmer adoption of food safety technologies |
| title_fullStr | Incentives and subsidies for farmer adoption of food safety technologies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Incentives and subsidies for farmer adoption of food safety technologies |
| title_short | Incentives and subsidies for farmer adoption of food safety technologies |
| title_sort | incentives and subsidies for farmer adoption of food safety technologies |
| topic | foodborne diseases diseases health farmers crops cereals technology maize food safety markets incentives farms subsidies |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147862 |
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