A systems perspective on postharvest losses.
Gill, M.; Poulter, N.;
Feeding a world population of more than eight billion people: a challenge to science. Year: 1998 Pages: 191-202 Ref: 11 ref.
1998
บทคัดย่อ
The paper analyses the process of setting a research agenda that will maximize the potential for increasing food availability through reduced postharvest losses. The paper starts by considering a commodity systems approach (producer to consumer), followed by discussion of what is meant by 'loss' in this wider context and the presentation of data giving the rationale for focusing on tropical systems. The paper starts by considering a commodity systems approach (producer to consumer), followed by discussion of what is meant by 'loss' in this wider context and the presentation of data giving the rationale for focusing on tropical systems. It then discusses the particular needs of tropical systems, namely, the issues of food security and the sustainability of renewable natural resources, and describes some of the attributes proposed. Finally, the paper presents six brief case studies to illustrate the potential contribution that science can make in the research to development continuum and reiterate
the need to address postharvest losses in the wider social economic and policy context.