Publications

This section provides access to documents covering the many post-harvest activities associated with agricultural commodities. 

El presente manual, que constituye el segundo volumen del manual de capacitacion sobre la prevencion de perdidas de alimentos poscosecha, contiene material procedente de muy diversas disciplinas relacionadas con la prevencion de las perdidas de alimentos y el desarrollo de [...]
Publication (book) 1989 N.A. (Spanish) Download document
This Training Manual was prepared and reproduced under FAO Project PFL/RLA/001/PFL "The Reduction of Post-Harvest Losses of Fruits and Vegetables Entering the Inter-Island Trade.", and funded therefore by the FAO Action Programme for the Prevention of Food Losses. It is [...]
Publication (book) 1988 S. R. Harris (English) Download document
The main objective of this manual is to describe how post-harvest handling and marketing can be improved through better packaging. Inter-regional exports of the English speaking independent countries in the Eastern Caribbean amount to more than 60,000 tonnes of produce traded, [...]
Publication (book) 1988 C.C.M Schuur (English) Download document
La premiere edition du Manuel de Conservation des Produits Agricoles Tropicaux a ete publiee en 1974. L'epuisement rapide de ce premier tirage, l'amelioration des techniques, l'evolution economique des Pays en Developpement, et une demande constante d'informations sur ce theme, sont [...]
Publication (book) 1988 J.F. Cruz, F. Troude, D. Griffon, J.P. Hebert (French) Download document
Dans plusieurs publications relatives a la production agricole et a l'alimentation de la population mondiale, les statistiques sur les pertes avant et apres les recoltes sont alarmantes. Il est bien evident que leur reduction permettra de nourrir des milliers d'individus [...]
Publication (book) 1988 C.U. Pantenius (French) Download document