Improving the food environment for healthy, diverse, nutritious diets

Senegal is committed to improving the food environment to ensure equitable and sustainable access to healthy, diverse, and nutritious diets by 2030. This commitment aims to strengthen food safety, protect populations, especially infants and young children, from unhealthy food products, and align national regulations with regional and international standards. The priority actions planned for this purpose are (i) the analysis of the existing regulatory framework on food safety to identify the needs for reforms and the strengthening of standards, (ii) the adoption of a decree on foods intended for infants and young children, in order to guarantee products adapted and in accordance with nutritional standards, (iii) the establishment of a law regulating the marketing of unhealthy foods, to protect consumers, especially children, from misleading advertising and inappropriate promotional practices and (iv) support to the ECOWAS sub-regional harmonization process, with a view to establishing common standards on complementary foods for children aged 6 to 36 months. The implementation of this commitment will be ensured under the leadership of the Ministries of Health and Trade, in collaboration with research institutes, parliamentarians, technical and financial partners (TFPs), as well as producers and other actors in the food chain.