Enhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods

This document reports on the DFID/NRI/FRI workshop on food security. It details the following reports offered by advisers:

• Socio-economic survey of street-vended foods in Accra
• Street-vended foods and Hygiene
• A HACCP approach to the prevention of mycotoxins through moisture control
• Heavy metals, pesticides and mycotoxins in street-vended foods
• Improvements to street food vending in Accra
• Health-related problems with street foods in Accra.
• Organochlorine pesticide residues and heavy metals contamination in some farming area in the Ashanti Region.
• Improvements to street food vending in Ghana – A historical perspective
• Problems faced by street food vendors in Accra.
• Street-vended foods in Accra: A worker’s concerns and expectations
• AMA bye – laws and policies on street-food vending in Accra.
• GES position on food sold to school chehildren in Accra.

These papers are part of a feature on street foods on the NRI website