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Development of Voluntary Codes of Conduct on Food Loss and Waste Reduction
17/06/2019
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Capitalization of Experience is Sub-Saharan Africa
07/06/2019
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has been funding programs on postharvest management (PHM) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since 2008, following its successful POSTCOSECHA program in Central America that led to the adoption of m...
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Government of Uganda, FAO, WFP, IFAD for the development of a comprehensive strategy to reduce PHL in grains
31/05/2019
Kampala - Key agriculture stakeholders in Uganda have commended national efforts towards addressing food and nutrition insecurity as well as increasing national income through strategies to reduce post-harvest losses in grains. The vote of confidence in the government was made...
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Post-harvest loss reduction for enhanced food and nutrition security in IGAD member states
11/03/2019
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Climate change and post-harvest loss: APHLIS blog post
04/03/2019
Climate change is expected to have a profound impact on agricultural productivity, post-harvest losses and value chains. Climate change affects agricultural productivity both directly, by introducing changes in agro-ecological conditions (e.g. drought, variable precipitation, extreme weather e...
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WFP Zero Food Loss Initiative January 2019 Update
07/02/2019
There are now over 335,000 families in 16 countries who have made the choice to join the WFP Zero Food Loss Initiative. Thanks to the hard work of a growing number of WFP Smallholde...
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Food Loss and Waste Law - Throughout the Value Chain
31/01/2019
Reducing loss and waste across the food value chain will contribute tremendously to reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture, improving the incomes and livelihoods of chain actors as well as the food security and nutrition of low-income consumers. SDG target 12.3 specifically calls fo...
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Food loss and waste reduction and management - Advanced course
18/12/2018
The Food loss and waste reduction and management advanced course follows a comprehensive approach, highlighting the importance of food loss and waste in current food systems, identifying main actors and critical points along the food supply chain and reviewing quantitative and qualitative appr...
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IFAD blog: Food loss reduction: a solution to global hunger?
26/11/2018
Leonardo Cini, IFAD consultant for the joint RBA project on "Mainstreaming food loss reduction initiatives for smallholder farmers" reported on his mission to Rwanda in July 2018.
A growing number of projects supported by IFAD follow a holistic approach that aims to improve the ov...
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Food Loss Analysis Methodology training workshop for East and Southern African Region
27/10/2018
A training workshop was organized by the Department of Soil Science & Agricultural Engineering in the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Zimbabwe (UZ), funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and carried out at Cresta Lodge, Harare from the 1 to...