Post-production operations include all steps and actors from production to consumption. Therefore, a systems approach should be adopted when analysing constraints and introducing improvements. A methodology to analyse post-production systems has been developed by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) [...]

In the field of storage protection, peasant farmers are using chemical pesticides to an increasing extent. Surveys have shown that there are serious problems in the correct use of these chemicals, in the selection of appropriate products and in their [...]