About FoSTA Health
FoSTA Health will take an interdisciplinary and systems approach evaluating the medium and long-term implications of food system change in southern Africa. The project combines stakeholder engagement and grounded research in case study contexts in Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia, with an integrated modelling framework, to explore associated changes in animal, human and environmental health.
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Fieldwork update- Emerging export value chains in Tanzania (July 2024)
The fieldwork for data collection on the risks and rewards of engaging in the emerging value chain for the export market has started in the districts of Muheza, Lushoto, and Korogwe. The data...
Updating district-level stakeholder databases in Malawi (May 30, 2024)
On May 28 and 30, FoSTA Health’s Kulima Integrated Development Solutions (KIDS) worked with Zomba and Mangochi District stakeholders to review the stakeholder databases they developed in February to...
Press conference on El Niño-induced drought impact in Southern Africa (April 22, 2024)
FoSTA-Health partners CARE Austria (and other CARE Affiliates) and FANRPAN organised the virtual event to brief the media on the scale and impact of the disaster, reflections upon the humanitarian...
Latest blogs
Reflections on participating in Zambia’s 96th Agriculture and Commercial Show
by Katharine Vincent and Willem Colenbrander August 19, 2024 FoSTA Health team members Katharine Vincent and Willem Colenbrander share some thoughts on what they learned from exhibitors at Zambia’s national agricultural show in August 2024.
How to best integrate legumes in maize production systems: Learning from field trials in Malawi
By Gildas Assogba and Rohit Pawar, Wageningen University; Anthony Malunga, CARE Malawi July 2, 2024 In a previous post (March 2024), we had reported our experiences and lessons learnt while setting up field trials in southern Malawi (Mangochi and Zomba districts). In the trials, intercropping of...
Ongoing drought an opportunity to push for food systems transformation in Zambia
By Willem Colenbrander- Kulima Integrated Development Solutions May 21, 2024 The southern African nation of Zambia has had to spend the past year firefighting disasters. In October-November 2023, record rainfalls triggered a historic Cholera outbreak which claimed more than 400 lives as it...
