Thanks a lot for this opportunity to share pespectives on food losses and food wastes.
Cultural aspects - at household and community levels - may not be underestimated. In our preliminary assessments in Ethiopia and in feasibility studies carried out in Tanzania, we encountered
- access to stored crops needs to be secured for both women and men, individually. This has implications for the technologies and their appropriateness for household storage
- people tend to favor storage within their premises, protected from potential misappropriation and as well hidden from "the eyes" of others, them not to know the amount of harvests stored.
Best regards
Manuel Flury, Global Programme Food Security
Swiss Agency for Development and Coopertion
Addis Ababa / Ethiopia
Manuel Flury