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FoSTA-Health partners FANRPAN report on the launch of the project in Pretoria, November 2022

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FoSTA-Health is a consortium of twelve organisations from Africa and Europe.

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FoSTA-Health is investigating the One Health outcomes associated with food system changes in diverse contexts across southern Africa.

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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.

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...

fosta-health fieldwork in malawi districts helping develop district-level stakeholder databses

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...

Involved personnel

CARE Austria
	Karen Knipp-Rentrop
	Marisa Tasser
	Nedjma Ouerdane
	Susanna Kupi
CARE Malawi
	Laura Criado Lafuente
	Clement Bisai
	Lemekeza Mokiwa
	Rafique Islam
	Thumbiko Msiska
CARE Zambia
	Patrick Kalenga
	Chikwe Mbweeda
	Chris Mzembe
	Elsie Samboko
	Henry Loongo
	Mary Chibambula
CARE International UK
	Caitlin Shannon
	Patience Mgoli Mwale
	David Manyonga
	Andrea Menefee
	Maureen Miruka

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