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...

En aquellos países en los que ha quedado probado —y, en algunos casos, efectivamente evaluado y sopesado—que las pérdidas poscosecha son elevadas, debería respaldarse el desarrollo de políticas y normativas propicias para su reducción. 

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 soluti...

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 postha...

La Organización las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), el y el Instituto Internacional de Investigación sobre Políticas Alimentarias (IFPRI) el programa de investigación del CGIAR sobre Políticas, Instituciones y Mercados (PIM), lanzaron una nueva iniciativa para mejorar la cooperación mundial en la medición y reducción de la pérdida y el desperdicio de alimentos.

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’ ...

El curso incluyes visitas sobre el terreno y entrevistas interesantes. “Las visitas a partes interesadas de la cadena, agricultores, procesadores y minoristas formaban parte del programa. En cada visita, los participantes entrevistaron al anfitrión para determinar el alcance de las pérdidas experimentadas por la empresa y las estrategias que reducirían estas pérdidas.

Teniendo en cuenta las abundantes deficiencias de micronutrientes y la necesidad de dietas diversificadas para prevenir y controlar estas deficiencias en todo el mundo, existe una necesidad real de obtener datos sobre la pérdida de nutrientes con el fin de evaluar las causas y la magnitud del problema.

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the UN Rome based agencies (FAO, IFAD and WFP) co-organized a workshop on Post-Harvest Management (PHM) / Food Loss Reduct...

Conferencia Internacional sobre la Estadística Agrícola - Modernización de la Estadística de Agricultura en apoyo de la Agenda por el Desarrollo Sostenible / Roma, Italia (26-28 octubre 2016)

ICAS VII es organizada...

OUAGADOUGOU – On 19 May 2015 the launching workshop of the RBA joint project’ technical activities, FAO, IFAD, and WFP, “Mainstreaming food loss reduction initiatives for smallholders in food deficit areas” was held in the conference room of the P...

A one-day workshop aimed at launching the activities planned in Uganda within the framework of the RBAs joint project funded by the Swiss Agency for International Cooperation was organized by FAO.

Kinshasa, 17 March 2015. About 40 participants, including experts in post-harvest management, representatives of relevant public and private sector actors, national and international institutions and organizations, decision makers were informed about the project “

The Community of Practice (CoP) moderator has exchanged with Betty A. Bugusu from Purdue University to consolidate information on Purdue’s experience in the framework of the Food Processing Innovation Lab.

Some main issues causing post-harvest losses for grains relate to drying and...

At the G20 agriculture ministers meeting held in Istanbul, the extent of food loss and waste was highlighted as "a global problem of enormous economic, environmental and societal significance" they encourage all G20 members "to strengthen their efforts to address it. We belie...

Your contribution in collecting and describing existing postharvest loss (PHL) assessment methodologies can make the difference! 

After the consultation undertaken to get CoP members’ insights about the preferred topics of discussion, a new thread has been launched on

At the end of 2012 SDC has started the project “Wide spread Replication of Successful Post Harvest Technology in Latin America (Proyecto Postcosecha América Latina PPAL)

Como la reducción de pérdidas de alimentos y valorisation de el desperdicio des alimentos debe ser la parte de una cartera de soluciones tuvo que alimentar el mundo más de manera duradera, GFIA 2015 incluirá más atención sobre les cuestiones relacionadas importantes. En asociación con Wageningen UR este acontecimiento de lado comprenderá una conferencia de tres días, orientada por soluciones juntos con un pabellón de tecnología de apoyar en la exposición GFIA.