Sustainability Literacy for Farmers
Background The Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gies College of Business has pioneered the area of inquiry and practice entitled subsistence marketplaces over the last two decades. This initiative takes a bottom-up approach to the study of the intersection of low-income individuals and marketplaces—developing unique synergies between research, teaching, and […]
Drying Crops With Stored Solar Energy
Background Over the past few years, University of Illinois professor emeritus Bruce Elliott-Litchfield has developed and refined a stored solar thermal technology called Sun Buckets. While the most prevalent use of Sun Buckets has been for cooking, Litchfield envisions wider applications for its use. Project Information In Haiti, a substantial amount of the peanut crop is lost […]
Postharvest Loss Reduction Policy Initiative
Background The Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) is an independent, policy-oriented, not-for-profit, economic policy think tank. ICRIER’s focus is to enhance the knowledge content of policy making by undertaking analytical research targeted at informing India’s policy makers and improving the interface with the global economy. Project Information ICRIER and ADMI are partnering on the Postharvest […]
Using Digital Platforms to Scale Technology Adoption
Photo credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT Background ADMI has identified many technologies to dramatically improve storage by smallholder farmers, including hermetic bags, which can eliminate mycotoxin infestation and pest damage in Indian settings, but these technologies have so far not been widely diffused in the input supply system. In the face of longstanding challenges in getting technologies to farmers, […]
ADM Cares supports 5 projects through ADMI for 2020-21
ADM Cares supports 5 projects through ADMI for 2020-21 Five postharvest loss-related research projects totaling nearly $158,000 were recently selected for funding through ADM Cares, ADM’s social investment program, which directs funds to organizations that drive meaningful social, economic, and environmental progress around the world. All five proposals accommodate the new realities of the global […]
Tackling Postharvest Food Loss in India
Tackling Postharvest Food Loss in India This article was authored by Rohini Kashimshetty (ADM) and was originally published on the ADM website on September 29, 2020. According to estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization, 14% of the food that is produced around the world is lost across the supply chain from the postharvest phase […]
Building Climate Resilience through Postharvest Technologies
Background The ‘Scaling up Climate-Smart Agriculture through Mainstreaming Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs)’ is a Government of Bihar project implemented by the Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Indian Council for Agricultural Research, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University (DRPCAU), and Bihar Agricultural University (BAU). The project focuses on […]
ADMI partners work to help farmers during pandemic
ADMI partners work to help farmers during pandemic Although the crops have grown well in India and Bangladesh this year, a complication in the form of a global pandemic now threatens what should have been a successful spring harvest season. India and Bangladesh have both been under lockdown since late March. Movement restrictions have helped […]
Going out the field: ADMI staff visit projects in India, Bangladesh
Going out the field: ADMI staff visit projects in India, Bangladesh Following the ADMI-IFPRI forum on improving grain storage in New Delhi on February 5, ADMI staff members traveled to Bihar and Bangladesh to visit our research partners and see projects in progress. Alex Winter-Nelson, ADMI Director; Maria Jones, ADMI Associate Director; and Sarah Schwartz, […]
Demand and Pricing Policy for Improved Storage Technology
Demand and Pricing Policy for Improved Storage Technology By Pallavi Shukla, pshukla4(at)jhu.edu Research shows that access to improved storage technology can play both direct and indirect role in increasing smallholder farmers’ incomes. In a large field experiment in the state of Bihar in India, we find that having access to improved storage technology helped smallholder […]
