The African Development Bank, in collaboration with FAO, is organizing a High Level Ministerial Dialogue on Post-Harvest Losses Reduction and Agro-Processing (PHAP), to be held in Abidjan on 21-2...

This consultation on linkages between FLW and Nutrition is aimed at understanding links between FLW and nutrition. A study has investigated losses of vitamins A and C associated with frui...

Los participantes del acto común sobre las lecciones aprendidas del proyecto de reducción de pérdida de alimentos implementado conjuntamente por los organismos de la ONU con sede en Roma (OSR) reclamaron el incremento de proyectos piloto para cumplir adecuadamente con la reducción exigida de pérdida de alimentos.

The Community of Practice on food loss reduction is drawing the attention to nutritional composition of losses and what research organizations are doing on this topic. 

To date, much of the research on...

El World Food Preservation Center® LLC, en colaboración con su universidad hermanada (Universidad de Nairobi) y en consorcio con universidades e instituciones de investigación y desarrollo de África, organizó la I Congreso y exposición sobre reducción de pérdidas poscosecha de toda África.

Las pérdidas de alimentos son un problema importante en la República Democrática del Congo (RDC) debido a las deficiencias existentes en las infraestructuras poscosecha, las tecnologías y las capacidades que afectan al sector agrícola del país. El 6 de abril de 2017, partes interesadas clave se reunieron durante un taller en Kinshasa para debatir sobre orientaciones y recomendaciones técnicas, políticas y estratégicas para reducir las pérdidas de alimentos en el país.

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...

omo parte de su proyecto de renovación, el Sistema de información africano sobre pérdidas poscosecha (APHLIS, por sus siglas en inglés) está realizando una encuesta entre los miembros de la comunidad internacional de pérdidas poscosecha con el fin de recibir comentarios y obtener ideas para mejorar sus servicios de datos. 

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Del 7 al 9 de junio de 2016 se celebró en Duala (el Camerún) un taller de tres días dentro del contexto del proyecto titulado Desarrollo de una estrategia para la reducción de las pérdidas de alimentos a favor de los pequeños agricultores en África - Fase 1. El taller forma parte de un proyect...

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...