Mekong Institute (MI) recently held an inception workshop for the five-year New Zealand Aid Programme (NZAP)-supported PROSAFE Project (Promoting Safe Food for Everyone) on September 7, 2018 in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.   Organized to officially launch the project, which takes off from the success of the first phase of the MI-Food Safety Project (MI-FSP), the …

MI GATHERS MYANMAR FOOD SAFETY STAKEHOLDERS FOR PROSAFE PROJECT INCEPTION WORKSHOP Read More »

Mekong Institute (MI) opens today, September 10, the regional training program on Raising Public Awareness on Safe Food Consumption at the MI Residential Training Center in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Twenty-eight participants from key national agencies and academic institutions from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV) are attending the five-day safe food course. Organized for …

MI TRAINING BRINGS INTO FOCUS CONSUMER AWARENESS ON SAFE FOOD Read More »

Mekong Institute (MI) organized an inception workshop in Lao PDR on September 4 for the New Zealand Aid Programme-supported PROSAFE project. Held at the Lao Plaza Hotel Vientiane, the workshop gathered 23 participants from key government agencies, including the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Ministry of Information, …

MI MEETS KEY FOOD SAFETY STAKEHOLDERS IN LAO PDR Read More »

Mekong Institute’s PROSAFE Project continues the delivery of training courses to bolster safe food consciousness in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV). Today, August 20, the regional training program on Mainstreaming Food Safety Risk Analysis opened at the MI Residential Training Center with 28 participants in attendance from relevant government agencies, academic and research …

MI PROSAFE TRAINING EMPHASIZES FOOD SAFETY RISK ANALYSIS Read More »

Mekong Institute served as co-organizer of the recently-concluded 4th AFSA International Conference on Food Safety and Food Security (AFSA 2018), hosted by the Asia Food Safety and Security Association together with the Royal University of Agriculture-Cambodia (RUA). The conference, held on August 10-12, 2018 at Siem Reap, Cambodia, featured 13 keynote presentations on the challenges, …

MI CO-ORGANIZES AFSA 2018, SIGNS MOU WITH RUA Read More »

The regional training on ‘Communicating Food Safety’ commenced today, August 6, at the MI Residential Training Center in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Twenty-eight science correspondents and media professionals from the four partner countries—Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam—are participating in this safe food course.   In an effort to raise media awareness and interest in covering food …

MI TRAINS CLMV MEDIA ON EFFECTIVE SAFE FOOD REPORTING Read More »

As Mekong Institute’s PROSAFE Project goes full blast with new training courses, the first in a series of Country Inception Workshops was held yesterday, July 24, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The workshop gathered 27 participants from four key ministries (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries [MAFF], Ministry of Industry and Handicraft [MIH], Ministry of Commerce …

MI’S PROSAFE PROJECT HOLDS INCEPTION WORKSHOP IN CAMBODIA Read More »

Mekong Institute (MI) opens today the third regional training program under the PROSAFE Project: Promoting Safe Food for Everyone. The two-week training course on “Assuring Food Safety through Pest and Agrichemical Management” is being held at the MI Residential Training Center this week until July 27, 2018. Funded by the New Zealand Aid Programme (NZAP), …

MI TRAINING UNDERSCORES PEST AND AGRICHEMICAL MANAGEMENT AS VITAL COMPONENT IN ENSURING FOOD SAFETY Read More »

In an effort to establish a network of skilled and capable safe food trainers in the region, Mekong Institute (MI) brings together key government, university, and private sector representatives for the Regional Training of Trainers on Food Safety Promotion. The one-week training program, which opened today, July 9, is part of the recently launched Food …

CLMV FOOD SAFETY CHAMPIONS ATTEND MI TRAINING OF TRAINERS Read More »

Mekong Institute (MI), with the support of the New Zealand Aid Programme (NZAP), launches today, July 2, the five-day Regional Training Program on Food Safety Management Tools for Food Manufacturing at the MI Residential Training Center. The program is the first in a series of food safety training programs organized under the PROSAFE Project: Promoting …

MI LAUNCHES PROSAFE FIRST TRAINING COURSE Read More »