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First Africa-wide Postharvest food loss reduction Congress and Exhibition
04/05/2017
28/03/2017 - 31/03/2017 (Nairobi, Kenya)
The World Food Preservation Center® LLC in conjunction with its sister University (University of Nairobi) and a consortium of Universities and a Research & Development Institution in Africa organized the First all Africa Postharvest Loss...
Help shape APHLIS: your open postharvest loss data resource for sub-Saharan Africa
06/03/2017
As part of its five year rejuvenation project, the African Postharvest Losses Information System (APHLIS) run a survey among the international postharvest loss community to source feedback and ideas on how to best improve its data services.
New CoP Forum discussion on PHL reduction policy development
11/04/2016
In countries where post-harvest losses have been proven to be high and, in some cases, assessed and measured the development of conducive policies and regulations for their reduction should be supported. It is a fact that multi-stakeholder initiatives play a key role in developing knowledge and capacities. As CoP members, we would like to receive your insights on: who the main drivers of such processes are; how do such processes work; and, based on what evidence they can be built.
Post-Harvest Management/Food Loss Reduction workshop in Jinja, Uganda
24/09/2015
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...
Measuring Food Losses and Food Waste a parallel session at ICAS VII
18/06/2015
A set of parallel sessions on "Sustainable Agricultural Production and Consumption" is organized. In this framework FAO is coordinating a dedicated one on "Measuring Food Losses and Food Waste".