Postharvest Losses Technology And Employment

This book presents a Bangladesh case study of the farm-level postharvest system. There are two main objectives. First to use measured estimates of food loss to test (and reject) the conventional assumptions: that postharvest farm-level food losses are large; that they can be prevented cost-effectively by technical change; and that as a consequence there will be more food consumption by hungry people. Commonly none of these assumptions are true and the evidence from Bangladesh plus supporting evidence from elsewhere is used to show why they are wrong.