NOVAFRICA Podcast: Promoting Unobservable Food Safety in Smallholder Agriculture: Evidence from Nigeria

🎙️ New! Episode 8 of season 7  of the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks, we welcome Professor Tanguy Bernard from the Bordeaux School of Economics to discuss his paper:

“Promoting Unobservable Food Safety in Smallholder Agriculture: Evidence from Nigeria.”

Professor Bernard explores the challenges smallholder farmers face in adopting food safety practices—focusing on aflatoxin contamination in maize and the limited use of Aflasafe, a public biocontrol product that helps prevent the spread of aflatoxin-producing fungi.

The discussion covers:

• Why weak market signals and limited institutional support hinder food safety investments

• What’s behind the low adoption of Aflasafe

• How policymakers can promote safer and more sustainable farming practices

🎧 Listen to the full episode here