Food Loss Reduction through Improved Postharvest Handling and Value-addition of Key Fruits and Vegetables (FAO)
©FAO/Benjamin Rasmussen
| Project's full title | Food Loss Reduction through Improved Postharvest Handling and Value-addition of Key Fruits and Vegetables |
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| Countries | Ethiopia |
| Start date | 31/05/2016 |
| End date | 28/12/2019 |
| Status | Completed |
| Donor | Germany |
| Recipient / Target Areas | Ethiopia |
| Project Code | none |
| Objective / Goal | Post-harvest loss and value chain of four key fruit and vegetables crops are assessed and analysed. Good practice options for reducing food losses in their value chains are compiled, evaluated and disseminated. Improved access to processing and other value-adding technologies is ensured and capacity for post-harvest handling, processing, marketing and other value adding related activities is increased. |
| Partners | The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA); Ethiopian Horticulture Development Agency (EHDA); FAO; Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR); Regional Bureau of Agricultures (BoAs); Regional Research Institutes (RARIs); Higher Learning Agricultural Institutions; NGOs; other UN agencies; community-based organizations (CBOs) and the private sector |
| Beneficiaries | the small-scale farmers, horticulture retailers , cooperative societies, Traders, processers, |
| Activities |
Output 1: Post-harvest loss and value chain of four key fruit and vegetables crops assessed and analysed. Activities ● A national diet assessment expert will carry out a review of existing national data and surveys where relevant data on consumption of fruits and vegetables are available, for the project areas. The expert will also select targeted instruments to collect data on consumption of fruits and vegetables and adapt them for use in project areas, providing questionnaires and methodology, as well as protocols and tools for data collection, data management and data analysis to monitor the consumption of fruits and vegetables in project areas; ● the national diet assessment expert will train the national project field coordinators to use data collection tools and apply protocols; ● household food consumption or dietary baseline targeted instruments will be used to collect data on the quantities of food items (focusing on the share of fruits and vegetables in diets as defined by FAO) consumed by a representative sample of households selected from the targeted population at the beginning of the project. The enumerations will be carried out by national field consultants adequately trained by a national diet assessment expert, for a period of two, five and seven consecutive days and it will assist FAO people from FAO Regional Office for Africa (RAF) or headquarters; ● support value chain studies on four selected fruit and vegetable crops focusing on the extent, impact and causes of post-harvest loss, including a cost-benefit analysis of the measures to be implemented taking into account market dynamics at regional and national level and possible impacts on climate change mitigation; ● assess capacity development needs at different levels (for both public and private sector institutions and actors); ● organize and conduct workshop to validate and disseminate the above findings; ● facilitate annual, mid-term and end project review by stakeholder and steering committee of the project to draw lessons; ● a second household food consumption survey will be carried out at the end of the project. Data from the inception and second household food consumption surveys will be analysed by the national diet assessment expert, who will prepare a report with key findings and recommendations. Output 2: Good practice options for reducing food losses are compiled, evaluated and disseminated. Activities ● Participate in the global ‘Community of Practice’ for food loss reduction; ● assess, identify and evaluate good practice options to be adapted for reducing post-harvest losses of fruit and vegetable crops; ● identified good practices tested and demonstrated with active participation of smallholder farmers; ● support technology packages development process on identified good options and disseminate through existing extension system; ● organize exchange visits for extension workers, farmers and cooperatives leaders within the country and/or abroad; and ● organize field days for creating awareness on post-harvest handling. Output 3: Improved access to processing and other value-adding technologies. Activities ● Identify specific commodities of fruits and vegetables for targeted communities for specific processing type, according to the findings of Output 1 above; ● assess and identify appropriate processing technologies and equipment; and ● provide small-scale processing equipment to rural farmers, women and youth groups (i.e. small-scale fruit/vegetable dryers, small scale tomato paste processing and packaging machines); Output 4: Increased capacity for post-harvest handling, processing, marketing and other value adding related activities. Activities ● Hold the inception and planning workshop; ● provide training of trainers (ToT) on fruits and vegetables post-harvest handling, processing, marketing and other value additions; ● develop and distribute tailor-made training materials on fruits and vegetables processing, marketing and other value additions in three main languages of the country; ● provide training for extension workers, farmers, cooperatives leaders and maintenance service providers in small-scale processing technologies; ● provide tailor-made training on fruits and vegetables processing, marketing and other value additions for agriculture extension workers, farmers, women and youth groups and cooperatives; ● provide tailor-made training to fruit and vegetable producers and retailers on post-harvest handling, packaging, transporting and displaying; ● improve access to extension and business advisory services, and strengthen the links between processing cooperatives and farmers (e.g. farmer field school, among others). Output 5: Groups, associations and cooperatives established/strengthen with a focus on rural women and youths. Activities ● Identify and establish fruits and vegetables processing groups/cooperatives; ● support cooperatives to obtain legal entity; ● provide training on team building, business planning and management, book keeping and storage management; ● support groups/cooperatives to develop and implement business plans; ● create linkages with microfinance and credit providers to acquire processing equipment; and facilitate business linkage between fruits and vegetables producers and processers and marketing agents. |
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