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Government of Uganda, FAO, WFP, IFAD for the development of a comprehensive strategy to reduce PHL in grains
31/05/2019
Kampala - Key agriculture stakeholders in Uganda have commended national efforts towards addressing food and nutrition insecurity as well as increasing national income through strategies to reduce post-harvest losses in grains. The vote of confidence in the government was made...
SAVE the DATE - Official launch of the Food Loss Analysis e-learning course
19/04/2018
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are jointly launching the e-learning course on Food Loss Analysis.
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).
High level Ministerial Dialogue to Support Post-Harvest Losses Reduction and Agro-Processing (PHAP)
19/10/2017
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...
UN Agencies signal the need to scale up food loss interventions
07/09/2017
Following a joint-event on the lessons learnt from a food loss reduction project implemented collaboratively by the Rome-based UN food agencies, the group called for the scaling up of pilot projects to adequately meet the required reduction in food loss.