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Postharvest technologies: implications for food policy analysis.

Greeley, M.;

EDI Development Policy Case Series, Analytical Case Studies Year: 1991 Issue: No. 7 Pages: v + 81pp. Ref: 64 ref.

1991

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Colonization of table grapes by Botrytis cinerea in the western Cape Province.

This study examines the proposition that substantially more food could be made available by preventing food loss at the farm level. It comprises three independent papers on appropriate threshing and milling techniques that can substantially improve farmers' productivity and the value of their farms. The first weighs the potential increase in available food made possible by efficient postharvest technologies against the effects of these technologies on the welfare of poor rural people. The potential of that increase to eradicate hunger is also discussed. The second is a case study of the adoption of pedal threshers for rice in Bangladesh. It examines the social and economic effects of using the pedal thresher, which increases labour productivity. It necessitates a choice, however, between more jobs or greater productivity with fewer jobs. Similarly, the third examines the choices for rice milling in Bangladesh and the displacement of female wage labour associated with the introduction of mechanized milling. For the poorest rural women from landless households, the only employment option is working as wage labourers in neighbouring households processing rice into paddy. With the introduction of male-operated rice mills, the processing is cheaper and many fewer positions are available.