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...

 

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...

En tant que partie du projet de rajeunissement étalé sur cinq ans, le système informatique sur les pertes après récolte en Afrique (APHLIS) est en train de mener une enquête dans la communauté internationale œuvrant dans le domaine des pertes après récolte, pour collecter des suivis et des suggestions sur les meilleurs façons d’améliorer ses services de données. 

Last 17^th January, the 1^st all Africa Post-harvest congress was officially launched in Nairobi, Kenya.

Jane Ambuko, Professor at the University of Nairobi and chair of the l...

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...

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...

Lancé en 2009, APHLIS consiste dans un modèle scientifique à mesure de fournir des estimations fondées sur des preuves sur les pertes après récolte des céréales, dans 38 pays de l’Afrique subsaharienne.

A validation workshop to share the results of a food loss assessment study and to collect feedback and comments by different stakeholders was held in Ouagadougou on 28 July 2016. The study was carried out by consultants and country team of the Rome-based UN agencies joint project in Burkina Faso.

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...

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 ...

Un atelier de trois jours, organisé dans le cadre du projet intitulé « Développer des stratégies de réduction des pertes alimentaires en faveur des petits exploitants en Afrique, Phase 1 »  a eu lieu à Douala, Cameroun, du 7 au 9 Juin 2016. Cet atelier fait partie d’un projet lancé en 2014, financé par le Ministère des affaires étrangères du gouvernement norvégien et mis en œuvre par la FAO dans onze pays du continent africain (Angola, Botswana, Cameroun, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Namibie, Rwanda, Swaziland, Zambie et Zimbabwe) en coopération avec les ministères de l’agriculture de chaque pays et d’autres parties prenantes.

Towards the 2016 SAVE FOOD annual meeting! At the 2015 SAVE FOOD annual Meeting, held in Vevey (Switzerland / 12 May 2015), Mireille Totobesola-Barbier presented the Community of Practice (CoP) on food loss reduction and the RBAs joint project "Mainstreaming Food Loss Reductio...

The CoP member Rex Raimond, Senior Mediator and Program Director of Meridian Institute, presents the “AflaSTOP: Storage and Drying for Aflatoxin Prevention (AflaSTOP)” project (started in 2012).

Meridian Institute is partnering with

Kinshasa, 6 April 2016: eight artisans selected and designated by producers groups, administrators of warehouses and inspections of agriculture, fishery, livestock and rural development, two from each territory of Bulungu and Idiofa in Kwilu Province, and of Seke-Banza and Luozi in Central Con...

Dans les pays où les pertes après récolte s’avèrent élevées, et dans certains cas, elles ont été effectivement évaluées et mesurées, le développement de politiques favorables et de règlementations pour leur réduction devrait être appuyé. En effet les initiatives multipartenaires jouent un rôle clé dans le développement de la connaissance et des capacités.

A three-day validation workshop organized in the framework of the project entitled ‘Food loss reduction strategy development in favour of smallholder producers in Africa Phase 1’ was held in Harare, Zimbabwe from 15 to 17 March 2016. The workshop is part of a project launched in 2014, funded b...

The Senior Programme Assistant Susan Chipeta describes for the CoP members the WFP intervention for reducing PHL undertaken in Zambia and implemented through two different actions and in collaboration with other institutions.

Suffocating Insects to Save School Meals. An airtight solutio...

Lisa Kitinoja (Postharvest Education Foundation, USA) participated as keynote speaker in the session on Education Platform and Decision Support Systems at the 1st International Congress on Postharvest Loss Prevention held in Rome in October 2015.

Her presentation on “Integrating posthar...

La FAO et l'Institut international de recherche sur les politiques alimentaires (IFPRI) ainsi que le programme de recherche du GCRAI sur les politiques, institutions et marchés financiers (PIM) ont lancé une nouvelle initiative visant à améliorer la coopération mondiale en matière de mesure et de réduction des pertes et du gaspillage alimentaires.

In Africa in particular, where smoking and drying are the most common methods for fish processing at small and medium scale level, the practices and techniques are constrained by significant challenges related to post-harvest losses, environmental issues, and value chain actors and consumers’ ...