ANNEX 1

LIST OF DIAGRAMS, PICTURES AND TABLES

CHAPTER 2

Diagram 1. «The Food Pipeline» (Source: Bourne, 1977, mimeo)

 Diagram 2. «Stages of a whole post-harvest system»
(Source: Spurgeon, 1977)

Diagram 3. «Social conditions of production, distribution and consumption», (Source: Sigaut, 1979)

Picture 1. Winnowing wheat, Afghanistan, FAO, 1994

Picture 2. Extension worker demonstrating a mechanical thresher to farmers, Madagascar, FAO, 1994

Table 1. Comparison between properties of cereals and roots and tubers regarding their storage capacity
(Source: FAO, 1984, quoted by Knoth, J., 1993)

Picture 3. Rural village in Siavonga district. Salvation Army food store
infested by Larger Grain Borer, Zambia, FAO, 1997

 Table 2. Crop production increases required to offset post-harvest losses (Source: Bourne, 1977, mimeo)

CHAPTER 3

 Table 3. RICE: Losses during harvest operations (%)

Table 4. RICE: Total post-harvest losses (Calverley: evaluation of 11 FAO projects in Asia)

Table 5. RICE: Distribution of post-production losses over three seasons (1987/1989) in China (Zhejiang) (IDRC study survey)

Table 6. RICE: Forest zone: damage and losses in pre-harvest drying (%)

 Table 7. MAIZE: percentage losses recorded during pre-harvest field drying (Source: FAO/AGS Bulletin no. 40)

 Table 8. MAIZE: Interaction of variety and period on mould attack as a percentage
(«La production alimentaire et l'agriculture en Afrique», Lomé, 1986)

Table 9. MAIZE: Losses in harvesting, shelling and drying
(Source: ACOGRANOS, Latin America)

Table 10. MILLET AND SORGHUM: on-field and transport losses
(Source: FAO, RAPA, 1986)

 Table 11. Losses during storage (over a period of 30 months) in traditional granaries in Senegal (Source: Yaciuk, G., 1977)

Table 12. MILLET AND SORGHUM: Losses during storage in traditional granaries in Tropical Africa
(Source: African Studies Centre, EHESS, Paris, 1987)

Table 13. (Source: Yaciuk, G. and Forrest, R.S., 1979)

 Table 14. Performances of traditional storage (straw or mudblock granaries) over a period of 30 months in Senegal (Source: Yaciuk, G. 1977)

 Table 15. PULSES AND OILSEEDS: Maximum moisture content for safe storage (Source: from CEEMAT: Conservation des grains en régions chaudes, Paris, 1988)

Table 16. Post-harvest losses of beans and soybeans in Brazil (%)
(Source: Technical Commission for Agricultural Loss Reduction)

Table 17. YAMS: Moisture content of the main yam species (%)
(Source: Coursey 1967, quoted by Knoth, J. in a GTZ handbook, 1993)

Table 18. YAMS: Weight loss under various conditions
(Source: FAO, Accra Workshop, 1994)

Table 19. YAMS: Losses recorded in two regions of Benin (%)
(Source: FAO, 1994)

Table 20. Share of breathing in global weight losses following storage of
D. rotundata (Source: PASSAM, 1982, quoted by Knoth, J.)

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 Table 21. Effect of losses on commercial management costs
(Source: C.E. Fru, Cor, Argentina, 1993)

Table 22. Dryer specifications, estimated performance and cost of drying freshly harvested field paddy (raw paddy) (Source: Wimberly, 1983)

Table 23. Costs of storing maize cobs in husk in improved and traditional granaries (Source: FAO, Accra Workshop, 1994)

Table 24. Development of grain moisture content
(Accra Workshop, FAO, pp. 53-54)

 Table 25. Damage caused by mould (% of mouldy grains)
(Accra Workshop, FAO, pp. 53-54)

 Table 26. percentage of weight loss caused by insects
(Accra Workshop, FAO, pp. 53-54)