2010
DOI: 10.1017/s0021859610000936
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Postharvest losses and waste in developed and less developed countries: opportunities to improve resource use

Abstract: SUMMARYThis review compares and contrasts postharvest food losses (PHLs) and waste in developed countries (especially the USA and the UK) with those in less developed countries (LDCs), especially the case of cereals in sub-Saharan Africa. Reducing food losses offers an important way of increasing food availability without requiring additional production resources, and in LDCs it can contribute to rural development and poverty reduction by improving agribusiness livelihoods. The critical factors governing PHLs … Show more

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“…Other factors influencing post-harvest losses of wheat in the area are related to logistics and infrastructure which include: storage facilities, distance to the nearest market place, conditions of the threshing process, and transportation conditions. These are expected results as in many studies (Parfitt et al, 2010;Harris & Lindblad, 1978;Hodges et al, 2011), poor logistics and infrastructure was contributing to high post-harvest losses. Therefore, this urges all stakeholders including the government to invest on public goods such as roads, establishment of market places near the producers, and enabling the chain actors for developing effective logistics system in the chain.…”
Section: Post-harvest Lossessupporting
confidence: 80%
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“…Other factors influencing post-harvest losses of wheat in the area are related to logistics and infrastructure which include: storage facilities, distance to the nearest market place, conditions of the threshing process, and transportation conditions. These are expected results as in many studies (Parfitt et al, 2010;Harris & Lindblad, 1978;Hodges et al, 2011), poor logistics and infrastructure was contributing to high post-harvest losses. Therefore, this urges all stakeholders including the government to invest on public goods such as roads, establishment of market places near the producers, and enabling the chain actors for developing effective logistics system in the chain.…”
Section: Post-harvest Lossessupporting
confidence: 80%
“…The third challenge is food loss and waste exacerbating the first two challenges. That is significant proportion of (estimates vary between 25%-40%) global food produced for human consumption was lost resulting in not only the losses of the food but also the losses of the scarce resources used to produce the food and also exposing the globe to additional economic and environmental costs to discard the lost food (Kummu et al, 2012;Godfray et al, 2010;Parfitt et al, 2010;Hodges et al, 2011;Rembold et al, 2011). In this study, significant portion of the wheat produced was lost across the supply chain.…”
Section: Post-harvest Lossesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Historically, two main approaches have been used to measure food loss. The first approach actually measures what has been lost, but this implies knowledge of what was present at the outset and this is usually not the case [35]. The second approach uses an Investigative Survey Research Approach (ISRA) to elicit loss estimates from those involved in the food supply chain [36].…”
Section: Survey Methods and Questionnairesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is believed that reducing of wastage of food by improving post-harvest management is more crucial than the production of more food by extensive agriculture horizontal expansion. Hodges et al (2011) have also pointed out reducing food losses can increase food availability without requiring additional production resources and it can contribute to rural development and poverty reduction in less developed countries.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%