Strengthening food safety through international training in Uzbekistan

Food systems are positioned to be a primary driver of improved human and environmental health. This is both a big challenge and opportunity for Central Asian Countries where one of the major threats is the low level of food safety and quality. Agricultural sector continues to be associated with low competitiveness and productivity, suffering for to unsafe foods and products and inadequate private and public management system. Problems are linked with low expertise of the public and private professionals and with inadequacy in higher and vocational education and training systems. International cooperation in higher education and capacity building Erasmus+ projects in the field of veterinary sciences can accelerate the needed changes in Uzbekistan.