Improvement of food storage facilities and promotion of the use of post-harvest technologies
Type of practice Reduce
Name of practice Improvement of food storage facilities and promotion of the use of post-harvest technologies
Name of main actor Gambia’s Departments of Agriculture and Energy
Type of actor(s) Farmers, Public authority
Location Gambia
Stage of implementation Farm, Harvesting, Storage, Transport
Year of implementation 2012
What was/is being done? The Gambia’s Departments of Agriculture and Energy have adopted a holistic approach
to address a number of environment-related issues of primary importance,
such as climate change mitigation and adaptation, reduction of GHG emissions, postharvest
losses, food security and sustainable development. In establishing the Nationally
Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) Programme, the Gambia has committed
to wide investments to improve transportation infrastructure and the allocation of
funds to support research to address adverse trends in the farming system. But NAMA
also includes a project aimed at promoting and facilitating the use of post-harvest
and food processing technologies to reduce food losses and enhance quality-food
availability, thus reducing the need to convert virgin lands and forests for farming and,
in turn, the emission of GHGs. The proposed project is to take place between 2012 and
2025, with an overall cost of US$ 3.25 million covering, inter alia, capacity building and
the improvement of sustainable technologies for cooling, cleaning, sorting and packing
harvested food. NAMA identifies a number of issues and the related potential solutions.
Some examples regard the protection of premature grazing, appropriate
harvesting, storage, and utilization and preservation techniques to reduce food losses.
Outcomes and impacts As the project just started, results aren't available yet