Reducing Post-Harvest Loss with Multi-Sectoral Solutions
Reducing Post-Harvest Loss with Multi-Sectoral Solutions This article was authored by Jessa Barnard (PHLIL), Sarah Schwartz and Maria Jones (ADMI). The article was originally published on Agrilinks on September 29, 2020, the first International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. Five months ago, we witnessed the phenomenon of American farmers dumping perfectly good […]
Evaluating Options for Large Scale Off-Farm Storage
Background In Bangladesh, farmers sell about one-third of their harvested paddy just after harvesting, store another one-third for sale after two to three months, and store the remaining one-third for house hold consumption over the next six months. This pattern of sales and home consumption means that the majority of the country’s grain is stored […]
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 […]
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 […]
