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SUMMARY:Global Postharvest Loss Prevention: Fundamentals\, Technologies\, and Actors
DESCRIPTION:\nEach year\, estimates suggest that 1/3 of all food produced is lost or wasted\, making postharvest loss a critical global food security and sustainability issue of today. \nAbout the Course\nThis online course provides an overview of the issue of postharvest loss of grains by exploring essential physical\, technical\, and social dimensions of postharvest supply chains and loss prevention methods globally. Key knowledge areas are presented including: \n\nAn overview of postharvest loss\nSupply chain activities such as harvesting\, drying\, and storage\nEconomics and markets\nAn introduction to the network of actors working in this field\n\nThe course faces the immense challenge of feeding over 9 billion people by the year 2050. To meet these demands\, yields will have to more than double using the same amount of natural resources. In recent years\, postharvest loss has been recognized by major institutions including the US government\, the United Nations\, the CGIAR Research Consortium\, and several others as a significant opportunity to impact food security and improve livelihoods. Despite this increased attention\, a lack of knowledge\, technical capacity\, and resources remain obstacles for stakeholders worldwide to act on these issues. This course will\, for the first time\, provide professionals\, practitioners\, and students\, with a comprehensive introduction to postharvest loss processes and begin building capacity for loss prevention worldwide. \n\n\nCourse Syllabus\nThis course will be broken up into 4 modules covering the following topics: \nWeek 1: Problem–Global Postharvest Loss\nThis module will provide an overview of the issue of postharvest loss (PHL) and how this impacts global food security and sustainability. It will also define the postharvest supply chain. \nWeek 2: Causes–Major Causes & Encounters for PHL\nThis module will introduce technical\, social\, and economic factors and situations that lead to postharvest losses. Harvesting\, drying\, and storage phases will be specifically covered as stages that are both vital in the grain supply chain and in which a great deal of postharvest losses are experienced. \nWeek 3: Solutions–A Prevention Framework for PHL\nThis module will introduce a conceptual framework for how losses can be prevented. Theories\, methods\, and case examples on prevention will be covered. \nWeek 4: Actors–A Network of Global Stakeholders\nThis module will explore how the international community is responding to the issue of postharvest loss. It will cover the current state of the postharvest loss prevention field\, as well as provide background as to how it developed. Some key projects\, initiatives\, and approaches will be highlighted. \nVisit the website for more background information and to register. \n\n
URL:https://knowledge4food.net/event/global-postharvest-loss-prevention-fundamentals-technologies-actors/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:International Conference on innovation systems in West and Central Africa
DESCRIPTION:CORAF/WECARD\, CSIRO- DFAT and Convergence of Sciences (CoS -SIS) are jointly organizing an international conference on agricultural innovation systems in West and Central Africa. The theme is “Facilitating changes in farming systems in West and Central Africa through the implementation of the Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D)”. The conference provides an opportunity to bring together several institutions and other stakeholders to share experiences on agricultural innovation systems in West and Central Africa\, to assess the successes and weaknesses of the IAR4D approach and to explore together the perspectives and solutions for its improvement. \nThe application of integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) is seen as an approach that facilitates change in agricultural systems in West and Central Africa. IAR4D integrates the following four “defining principles”: \n\nPerspectives\, knowledge and actions of different stakeholders around a common theme;\nLearning by stakeholders achieved through working together;\nAnalysis\, action and change across the economic\, social\, environmental\, spectrum and livelihoods and welfare of end users and consumers;\nAnalysis\, action and change at different levels of spatial\, economic\, and social organisation.\n\nIAR4D fundamentally encourages multi-stakeholder Innovation Platforms (IP) which comprise stakeholders and/or collaborators of various social and economic strata and the institutions that govern their functioning\, all working towards a common objective. In principle\, the platform considers the innovation as a systemic and dynamic process and it recognises that innovation can emerge from many sources of complex interactions\, and knowledge sharing. \nOver recent years\, CORAF/WECARD\, DFAT\, CSIRO and CoS-SIS have promoted IAR4D principles in exploring opportunities for the smallholder producers and the institutions in West and Central Africa. This conference provides the opportunity to gather these institutions and others stakeholders together to make a situational analysis on the current state of agricultural systems in West and Central Africa\, to assess the successes and weaknesses of the IAR4D approach and jointly explore its future. \nThe conference aims at facilitating change in agricultural systems in West and Central Africa through application of IAR4D. This objective will be achieved through the delivery of the following outputs: \n\nKnowledge on the historical evolution\, in theory and practice\, of an integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) approach to delivering impacts are improved;\nAchievements and challenges of IAR4D implementation in Africa and elsewhere are better understood;\nRecommendations for implementing IAR4D within the context of second five- year Operational Plan 2014-2018 [OP2] of CORAF/WECARD are formulated;\nAn updated frame of investment prospectus for IAR4D in West and Central Africa are presented.\n\nDownload the First Announcement of the CORAF-AFSI conference in February 2015 (PDF). \nDownload the Second Announcement for Call for Papers of the CORAF-ASCI conference (PDF). \n� \n
URL:https://knowledge4food.net/event/international-conference-innovation-systems-west-central-africa/
LOCATION:Saly-Portudal\, Senegal
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SUMMARY:Pop-up Friday - Food Security
DESCRIPTION:The Utrecht Center for Entrepreneurship (Utrecht CE) and Droomzaken have created Pop-up Fridays\, a series of open office spaces. The first Pop-up Friday will be held on February 27\, 2015\, and is organized together with the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) around the following theme: \nHow can the power of innovation and the entrepreneurship of social enterprises be used optimally to realize food security in emerging economies and developing countries.  \nUtrecht CE\, Droomzaken and F&BKP invite social entrepreneurs\, impact investors\, policy makers\, scientists\, NGO professionals and students\, who are\, or would like to be\, involved in the area of food security. The aim of this first Pop-up Friday is to create a joint coherent knowledge agenda. \nWhere: University Utrecht\nWhen: February 27\, 2015\nTime: 10:00 – 17:00 \nIn the morning there is room for casual encounters\, unexpected conversations\, and time to finish the week’s to-do list\, meet the last deadline of the week or make some urgent calls. Just like in the office\, but surrounded by different people\, backgrounds and insights. Good coffee and fast Wi-Fi will of course be available! \nAt 13:00 it is time for a joint lunch\, which marks the start of the theme-based program around social entrepreneurs and food security. At 17:00 the day is closed with informal drinks. \nA detailed program including the key speakers will follow soon. \nDownload the inivitation (in Dtuch). \nTo register\, send an e-mail to Ine Martens of the F&BKP Office ((function(){var ml="0dakcg4Clm%EDo-sifF3r.t2hweAn"\,mi=":C72:G0HDJA:C
URL:https://knowledge4food.net/event/pop-friday-social-entrepreneurship-food-security/
LOCATION:Poortgebouw University Utrecht\, Utrecht\, Netherlands
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