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A new report from ILRI and IIED reviews the effectiveness of training and certification schemes designed to give small-scale ‘informal’ sellers of ‘raw’ and/or boiled or informally pasteurized milk and (in India) milk sweets greater market access in East Africa and South Asia. The report reviews such schemes in Kenya and Tanzania and in the state of Assam, in northwestern India. In all three countries, the informal sector dominates dairy marketing and trade and informal milk production and trade contribute significantly to the employment, livelihoods and nutrition of many millions of poor people. Continue reading →

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How viable are schemes to give poor people making and selling ‘informal’ milk greater market access?

More on why outright banning of ‘wet markets’ (while ‘giving virologists the heebie-jeebies’) won’t work

Wildlife markets in the pandemic: Prohibit or preserve them? Ban or promote them?

FOOD SAFETY: In support the traditional—and essential—food markets of low-income countries

Why shutting down Chinese ‘wet markets’ could be a terrible mistake

Kenyan livestock sector to grow ‘exponentially’—Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

On a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means longer, healthier lives—The Economist

‘We can’t modernize, regulate or train our way to food safety in Africa’—ILRI epidemiologist Silvia Alonso

A ‘milk start-up’ aims to modernize India’s massive informal dairy economy in Odisha State

Win in old ‘real-world’ markets by capturing mind shares (claiming bandwidth) in the new ‘narrative markets’