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Towards the development of post-harvest management policy and strategy in Burkina Faso
14/04/2017
Towards the development of post-harvest management policy and strategy: supporting a strategic roadmap for the reduction of post-harvest losses in cereals and pulses in Burkina Faso
On 15 March 2017, key stakeholders met in Ouagadougou to discuss technical, policy and s...
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MIT study reports improved income, food security and well-being for Ugandan farmers participating in WFP’s Zero Food Loss initiative
20/03/2017
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) carried out an independent study about the scalability and adaptability of post-harvest hermetic technologies based on the WFP Special Operation in 2015. The study focused on scalability, adaptability and impact of the project to Ug...
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Help shape APHLIS: your open postharvest loss data resource for sub-Saharan Africa
06/03/2017
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1st All Africa Postharvest Congress & Exhibition and All Africa Postharvest Technologies and Innovations Challenge
08/02/2017
Last 17th January, the 1st all Africa Post-harvest congress was officially launched in Nairobi, Kenya.
Jane Ambuko, Professor at the University of Nairobi and chair of the l...
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NEW online Forum discussion on business models of PHL technologies
20/01/2017
The Forum of our CoP is launching a new online discussion aimed at comparing the different business models used by a variety of projects and programmes worldwi...
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Postharvest Management (PHM) side event at GFRAS 7th annual meeting
11/10/2016
A side event on Postharvest Management (PHM) organized by AFAAS and its PHM partners was held during the GFRAS 7th annual meeting in Limbe, Cameroon on 3 October 2016. The GFRAS 7th annual meeting was an important opportunity to engage in the global effort to reduce food losses a large nu...
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Improving our estimates of postharvest losses: APHLIS+ launch
21/09/2016
Launched in 2009, APHLIS is a scientific model which provides evidence-based estimates on postharvest cereal losses (PHLs) across 38 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
The APHLIS+ network meeting, hosted by the Natural Resources Institute in Accra (Ghana) 5-9 September 2016, provided ...
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Validation workshop of Burkina Faso food loss assessments report
30/08/2016
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First portable low-cost device developed for rapid detection of aflatoxins
04/08/2016
On 26 July 2016, the International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) launched a new technology that detects aflatoxins on location, can save lives and open export markets for African and Asian countries. The rapid test kit device is also affordable at under US$ 2. This e...
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Validation workshop of maize and rice loss assessments and reduction solutions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
17/06/2016
Kinshasa, DRC, 26-27 May 2016 - In the framework of the implementation of the RBAs joint project “Mainstreaming food loss reduction initiatives for smallholders in food deficit areas”, food loss assessments in the maize and rice value chains in the provinces of Kwilu (Idiofa and ...