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Food Loss And Food Waste Reduction And Recovery Initiative of the Faculty of Agriculture University of Mauritius
27/03/2018
The Faculty of Agriculture (FoA) of the University of Mauritius is leading the “Food Loss and Waste Reduction and Recovery” Initiative (hereafter referred to as FLoWeR Initiative) scheduled over one year (February 2018 to March 2019) with the aim of creating national awareness on food...
Bellagio Statement on Post-harvest Management
26/03/2018
A workshop was held at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center (11-15 September 2017), inspired by discussions with the YieldWise Initiative, focused on market-based approaches to scale up successful Post-Harvest Management (PHM) experiences, drawing on lessons from Sub Saharan Africa (SSA).
Now online: Food Loss Analysis E-learning course
26/03/2018
An e-learning course developed in the framework of the RBA joint "Mainstreaming food loss reduction strategies for smallholders in food-deficit areas" introdu...
Low-cost cold storage technologies to boost farmers resilience and income
01/03/2018
A new project on affordable post-harvest technologies such as low-cost cold storage equipments to boost farmers resilience and income is managed by Dr Jane Ambuko, a scientist at the University of Nairobi's Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection and CoP on food loss reduction member.
AfDB: Post-Harvest Losses Reduction and Agro-Processing (PHAP) Flagship launch
06/12/2017
On 21-22 November 2017 a high level ministerial dialogue was held to launch the Post-Harvest Losses Reduction and Agro-processing (PHAP) flagship funding by the African Development Bank (AfDB).
The programme included: Session 1 - Realizing the value of increased productivity ...