One third of food is lost or wasted: how to help farmers cut post-harvest losses
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Agriculture in the global south remains under pressure to produce more food while responding to climate change and resource constraints. Policy responses have focused on increasing production. But what about post-harvest losses? Globally, about one-third of food produced for human consumption is estimated to be lost or wasted.
The problem was examined in a recent paper by agriculture, indigenous knowledge and food security researchers.
Our research was based on examining 324 studies on the scale, causes and drivers of post-harvest losses across food commodities and regions of the global south.
