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POSTCOSECHA is a rural development strategy to reduce postharvest losses
POSTCOSECHA refers to a rural development strategy to disseminate a proven technology for the reduction of postharvest losses in grain staples such as maize, beans, rice or sorghum. The technology allows small and medium scale producer families to practically avoid postharvest losses and thereby to have additional good quality grain available for consumption, sale and planting. Since postharvest grain losses frequently range between 10 and 30 percent, their reduction is an important contribution to poverty alleviation and food security. The information on this website reflects the experience made in the POSTCOSECHA project in the four countries of Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.
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About POSTCOSECHA (Link)
| Latin Brief on POSTCOSECHA February 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
Como una contribución a la gestión de conocimientos y para dejar constancia a manera de "memoria histórica" de uno de los más importantes programas de reducción de pérdidas postcosecha de granos básicos, tengo a bien hacer la presentación del libro SILOS METÁLICOS Y ALIMENTOS SEGUROS, "HUELLAS DE UN EXITOSO PROGRAMA CENTROAMERICANO DE POSTCOSECHA", en el que se reflejan más de 16 años de experiencia acumulada por el autor, de los cuales cerca de 9 años fueron con la COSUDE. El libro se orienta al conocimiento Postcosecha de los granos básicos como maíz, fréjol, sorgo, arroz. Por tanto, el tema de la postcosecha de frutas y hortalizas no se considera, puesto que los enfoques son diferentes.
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| Grain Silos for Everybody: POSTCOSECHA in Central America: The story of a successful project for pos November 1996 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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