Greetings of the season and thank you for the invitation to submit input on this topic.
I see a wide gap between sections 3.4.1 and 3.4.2 -- I would add Prevention of food losses via improved postharvest handling practices as 3.4.2 and add 3.4.3 for the food safety topic
3.4 Reduction of food losses through capacity building, education, training and extension services
3.4.1 Prevention of food losses by good practices in crop and animal production
3.4.2 Prevention of food losses by Food Safety control procedures
A recently completed USAID funded project in Tanzania provides a comprehensive approach to reducing food losses for small farmers, traders and marketers-- it is called a Postharvest Training and Services Center (PTSC). While the planned Wageningen project is promising, it does not yet exist, while this one is in operation in Arusha, Tanzania under AVRDC auspices.
PTSC launch article
http://hortcrsp.ucdavis.edu/main/media%20page/2013_04_01_January_Horticulture_CRSP_News.pdf
Where Food Comes From website
CRSPS.Net Presentation
http://crsps.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Wed-M-3a-Nenguwo-AVRDC-TZ-PostHarvest-Center.pdf
Harvesting Nutrition website
https://www.securenutritionplatform.org/SuccessStories/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=39
Promoting best postharvest practices
Here are a few current references that include additional cost/benefit information and practical field based information.
Kitinoja, L. (2013) Innovative Small-scale Postharvest Technologies for Reducing Losses in Horticultural Crops
Ethiop .J. Appl. Sci. Technol. (Special Issue No.1): 9- 15
http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/datastore/234-2584.pdf
Kitinoja, L. (2010) Identification of Appropriate Postharvest Technologies for Improving Market Access and Incomes for Small Horticultural Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. WFLO Grant Final Report to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, March 2010. 318 pp.
http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/datastore/234-1848.pdf (slide deck)
http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/datastore/234-1847.pdf (full report)
Saran, S., Roy, S. K. and Kitinoja, L. (2012). Appropriate Postharvest Technologies for Improving Market Access and Incomes for Small Horticultural Farmers in Sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia. Part 2: Field Trial Results and Identification of Research Needs for Selected Crops. Acta Hort (IHC 2010) 934: 41-52.
http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/datastore/234-2428.pdf
Winrock International, Empowering agriculture, energy options for horticulture. US Agency for International Development 79 pp. (2009).
http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADO634.pdf
Attached are two white papers from The Postharvest Education Foundation (one on the use of plastic crates for reducing food losses, one on data collection/loss assessment) and an unpublished preliminary Hort CRSP project report with more information on the PTSC concept and its current status.
LK
Dr. Lisa Kitinoja
The Postharvest Education Foundation
PO Box 38, La Pine, Oregon 97739 USA
Website homepage: www.postharvest.org
Mobile phone: (916) 708-7218
Lisa Kitinoja