Post-Harvest Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa -- What Do Farmers Say?
By J. Kaminski, L. Christiaensen. 2014
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The 2007-2008 global food crisis has renewed interest in post-harvest loss, but estimates remain scarce, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper uses self-reported measures from nationally representative household surveys in Malawi, Uganda, and Tanzania. Overall, on-farm post-harvest loss adds to 1.4-5.9 percent of the national maize harvest, substantially lower than the Food and Agriculture Organization's post-harvest handling and storage loss estimate for cereals, which is 8 percent. Post-harvest loss is concentrated among less than a fifth of households. It increases with humidity and temperature and declines with better market access, post-primary education, higher seasonal price differences, and possibly improved storage practices. Wider use of nationally representative surveys in studying post-harvest loss is called for.
Subfields: Food Science, Plant Science
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- Understanding the agricultural input landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa : recent plot, household, and community-level evidence (2014, unknown): “…the same data find high rates of chemical use in storage of harvested farm output in the set of eastern and southern African LSMS-ISA countries (Kaminski and Christiaensen 2014), suggesting that the statistics we report represent lower bounds on total chemical use by farmers across…”
- Quantity and quality food losses across the value Chain: A Comparative analysis (2020, unknown): “Others point to the importance of education (Kaminski and Christiaensen, 2014), contractual practices (Parfitt et al., 2010), and the growing need to improve infrastructure, particularly in rural areas.”
- Reducing Postharvest Losses during Storage of Grain Crops to Strengthen Food Security in Developing Countries (2017, background): “9 - These losses are only from farm level activities [42]”