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Missing Food: The Case of Postharvest Grain Losses in Sub-Saharan Africa April 2011 Author: World Bank, NRI, FAO This FAO/World Bank report claims that investing in post-harvest technologies to reduce food losses could significantly increase the food supply in sub-Saharan Africa. The report estimates the value of post-harvest grain losses in sub-Saharan Africa at around $4 billion a year.
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Get to know the metal silo June 2009 Author: Juan Bravo An effective technology for poverty alleviation: a brief overwiew.
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When food markets do not provide enough food January 2009 Author: InfoResources (ed.) Lessons from the recent food price crisis. The global food crisis has made it clear that “food for all” requires a renewed focus on agriculture.
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Latin Brief on POSTCOSECHA March 2008 Author: SDC Latin America Section Published three times yearly, the Latin Brief highlights SDC and partner achievements and discusses development cooperation trends. The Latin Brief focuses on topics relating to poverty reduction and the promotion of human security. The publication is intended for a wide public in Switzerland as well as for development practitioners.
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Silos metálicos y alimento seguros 2008 Author: Juan Bravo As a contribution to knowledge management and to materialize the experience of one of history’s greatest programs in reducing post-harvest losses of basic grains, I am pleased to offer this book, METAL SILOS AND FOOD SECURITY, LESSONS LEARNED FROM A SUCCESSFUL CENTRAL AMERICAN POST-HARVEST PROGRAM, reflecting over 16 years of the author’s experience, nearly nine of them with SDC. The book covers post harvest handling of basic grains such as corn, beans, sorghum and rice. It does not address post harvest handling of fruits and vegetables, because the approaches are different.
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Monitoreo de Asesoría Empresarial a Artesanos POSTCOSECHA 2003 Author: Programa Regional POSTCOSECHA El Programa Postcosecha ha realizado un esfuerzo considerable en formar artesanos que fabriquen y transfieran el silo metálico hacia la población meta – los agricultores de granos básicos –, lo cual a través de los años ha permitido también capacitarlos mediante la asesoría empresarial personalizada. Esta asesoría empresarial tiene por objetivo convertir a los artesanos postcosecha en empresarios que posean negocios rentables y eventualmente den sostenibilidad a la transferencia de la tecnología postcosecha, la cual asegura alimentos de buena calidad para el consumo humano.
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Sistema de Monitoreo y Evaluación (SME) de POSTCOSECHA 2003 Author: Programa Regional POSTCOSECHA A partir de 1987, dada la gran cantidad de instituciones con que se estaba trabajando en la Unidad Postcosecha de Honduras, se vio la necesidad de complementar el seguimiento de actividades con instrumentos que permitieran evaluar, además del desarrollo de las actividades programadas, el grado de integración que estas actividades pudieran alcanzar en cada una de ellas.
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Monitoreo del grano almacenado en silo metálico 2003 Author: Programa Regional POSTCOSECHA En el almacenamiento de granos en silo metálico, el objetivo es lograr que los usuarios disminuyan las pérdidas de granos durante el almacenamiento, para lo cual se deben aplicar adecuadamente las tecnologías transferidas. Para evaluar el grado de cumplimiento de este objetivo, se cuenta con el siguiente indicador: “al 31 de mayo de cada año el 90% de los productores o productoras que utilizan silos lo hacen adecuadamente”.
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Beneficios del Silo 1998 Author: Programa Regional POSTCOSECHA
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Grain Silos for Everybody: POSTCOSECHA in Central America: The story of a successful project for pos 1997 Author: Kurt Schneider The Project POSTCOSECHA started out in 1980 in Honduras with the goal of reducing post-harvest losses of the most important basic foodstuffs for small farmers in Central America. This was to be achieved through targeted extension of tested, simple, user-friendly, clean, economically and socially acceptable technology. The most important foodstuffs were corn, beans, millet and rice. Outstanding results were achieved through the propagation of cylinder-shaped metal silos, which were manufactured in different sizes by local metal smiths under project supervision. The project intended to contribute through the creation of additional revenues to the improvement of the target population's living conditions and through the reduction of storage losses to an improved countrywide nourishment security.
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