The IRC in Tucson's FSOP project goal is to develop and test a comprehensive food safety training curriculum that is effective in equipping refugee farmers with essential food safety knowledge and skills to help them integrate into the local food economy. Objective 1: Develop a comprehensive food safety training curriculum that meets the learning needs of an English language learning and pre-literate audience by utilizing FSMA guidelines, existing curricula, and input from program participants and local experts.Objective 2: Refugee Farmers trained using a newly developed food safety curriculum and provided with ongoing technical support gain essential food safety skills indicated by a score of 80% or better over pre-test scores on a final farmer skills evaluation.
IRC Tucson FSOP Program
Objective
Investigators
Martinez, Katrina
Institution
International Rescue Committee, Inc.
Start date
2018
End date
2019
Funding Source
Project number
ARZW-2018-05207
Accession number
1017237