About FoSTA-Health
FoSTA-Health takes 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
Aspirations of small-scale farmers amid food systems transformation in Tanzania and Malawi
February 20, 2025 This blogpost is a reproduction of the abstract of a paper based on FoSTA-Health research being conducted by Aneta Seidlová and Lenka Suchá (Czech Globe- Global Change Research Institute CAS) Smallholder farmers are key to food system transformation, with aspirations shaping...
Building a healthy and sustainable food environment in Zambia: Understanding transitions and policy opportunities
Februray 13, 2025 This blogpost is a reproduction of the abstract of a paper based on FoSTA-Health research being conducted by Peter Yiga, Pui Yee Tan, Stephen Whitfield, Yun Yun Gong (University of Leeds); Christian Chomba (ACF Zambia), Andrea Menefee, Patrick Kalenga, Caitlin Shannon (Care...
African Food System Transformation Collective Convening in 2024 November in Kigali, Rwanda
Phelelani Sibiya, Economist, FANRPAN Associate,National Agricultural Marketing Council, South AfricaStacia Nordin, Permaculture Dietitian,NeverEndingFood Permaculture, Malawi Transitioning to agroecology is a powerful and necessary shift toward more sustainable and resilient agricultural...
