Every year, the extraction of cocoa beans generates tonnes of waste products that just rot away unused. The founders of the Swiss start-up Koa found this terribly squanderous. In the south of Ghana, they have established…
Recycling organic waste into soil amendments and animal feed through a transdisciplinary approach – this is what the RUNRES project, launched in four sub-Saharan African countries four years ago, seeks to achieve. Now…
Many innovations have been developed in recent years in the field of biomass conversion technologies that enable food waste and agricultural surpluses to be converted into various valuable products. This article presents…
Millions of people are hungry, while tons of food are lost and wasted. Reducing food loss and waste improves food security and contributes to mitigating climate change. A forthcoming edition of Rural 21 will provide an…
With a new cross-regional initiative, GIZ takes up the challenge of reducing post-harvest losses through innovations within the Global Agricultural Policy and Innovation Fund. A virtual innovation platform and a hybrid…
In Zambia, innovative approaches are being used to address the problem of post-harvest losses in the groundnut value chain. The Rapid Loss Appraisal Tool (RLAT) developed by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale…
Approximately 40 per cent of all the food grown goes uneaten, according to a new WWF report, while per capita farm-stage losses are generally higher in industrialised regions.
More than 900 million tonnes of food sold to households, retailers, restaurants and other food services were wasted in 2019, according to the Food Waste Index Report that aims to help countries track progress on UN…
The Agritechnica Asia and Horti Asia digital talk about Post-Harvest Losses, which took place in late November, addressed the avoidance of losses by improved process management and handling of crops as well as…
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has declared the 29th September the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW). At its international trade fairs, DLG International, in cooperation with…
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