- Under Recommendations - bullet 2 (potential for reduction for food waste, and by what means (technical and policy tools, information etc), taking into account regional and product specificities, as well as actions at different levels)
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Perishable food commodities including fruits and vegetables where high food losses from the production to the retail/consumer level occur, there are various interventions which would significantly reduce the losses. Some of the interventions/practices to minimize losses include
- 1) Better production/agronomic practices to ensure produce of high quality potential at harvest
- 2) Good harvest practices including right harvest maturity + harvest time, careful harvesting to minimize mechanical damage
- 3) Good postharvest handling practices such as grading, shading, sanitization, cooling
- 4) Better packaging for transportation to distant markets
- 5) Maintaining a cold chain from harvest to marketing
- 6) Application of some of the tested applicable postharvest technologies that have been used n developed countries to successfully reduce postharvest losses to below 10% compared to 40-50% in the developing countries
- *Most of the proposed interventions above simply require capacity building for the producers (farmers) through various methods such as field days, workshops, farmer field schools
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Perishable food commodities including fruits and vegetables where high food losses from the production to the retail/consumer level occur, there are various interventions which would significantly reduce the losses. Some of the interventions/practices to minimize losses include
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Jane Ambuko