Postharvest Extension and Capacity Building for the Developing World

ISBN-13: 9781032237510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 226 str.

Majeed Mohammed; Vijay Yadav Tokala

Opis

This book provides information on postharvest extension/outreach programs, capacity building and practical methodologies for postharvest extension professionals and food science teachers, food process trainers and outreach specialists working in the field. Chapters will cover postharvest extension work and capacity building in a range of regions

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Table of Contents

SEC I FLW ASSESSMENTS METHODS

1 Current status of food loss assessment measurements and methodologies

Lisa Kitinoja

2 Capacity building in postharvest loss assessment, postharvest training and innovations for reducing losses: Challenges and opportunities in the Caribbean

Majeed Mohammed and Lisa Kitinoja

3 Commodity Systems Assessment Methodology (CSAM): History and current status

Karol Alpizar Ugalde

SEC II CAPACITY BUILDING

4 Postharvest education, training and capacity building (2010-2017): A critical review

Lisa Kitinoja and Vijay Yadav Tokala

5 Enhancing postharvest capacity in national extension systems and advisory services

Lisa Kitinoja and Jorge M. Fonseca

6 The World Food Preservation Center LLC

Charles L. Wilson

7 Reducing postharvest loss and waste in fruits and vegetables: Amity’s Initiatives

Sunil Saran and Neeru Dubey

8 Training women on reducing postharvest losses of fresh fruits and vegetables in Egypt

Saneya Mohamed Ali El Neshawy

9 Investing in postharvest and food processing training, equipment and value addition for reducing food losses in Tanzania

Bertha Mjawa

SEC III TRAININGS

10 Global Postharvest E-learning Programs via The Postharvest Education Foundation

Deirdre Holcroft and Devon Zagory

11 Creation of postharvest and food processing videos for extension of postharvest technologies

Diane M. Barrett

12 Scientific Animation Without Borders: Addressing Educational Gaps in Postharvest Loss

Julia Bello-Bravo, Anne Namatsi Lutomia, and Barry R. Pittendrigh

13 Development, Demonstration and Utility of Stored Grain Saving Technologies: A case study in India

S. Mohan

SEC IV POSTHARVEST EXTENSION MODELS

14 ADMI Village: The research in action

Alex Winter-Nelson, Mindy Spencer, Sarah Schwartz and Ashley Nagele

15 Lessons Learned from a Postharvest Training and Services Center in Arusha, Tanzania.

Ngoni Nenguwo, Roseline Marealle, and Radegunda Kessy

16 Farmer Advisory Services in Tajikistan (FAST): Agriculture Extension Program to Prevent Postharvest Losses and Improve Nutrition

Lola Gaparova and Andrea B. Bohn

17 Punjab Horticultural Postharvest Technology Centre: Building and strengthening linkages between postharvest professionals and emerging horticulture sector in India

B.V.C. Mahajan

18 Monitoring and Evaluation practices for improving postharvest extension projects

Lisa Kitinoja and Devon Zagory

19 Summary and Conclusions

Majeed Mohammed and Vijay T. Yadav

O autorze

 

Majeed Mohammed is a Professor of Postharvest Physiology at the University of the West Indies (UWI), where he has taught for the past 30 years. After completion of his BSc in Agriculture from the UWI in 1977, he obtained his MSc and PhD in Postharvest Physiology at the University of Guelph (1984) and UWI (1992). He is currently a Board Director with the Postharvest Education Foundation as well as a member of the United Nations/Food and Agriculture Organization Panel of Experts from Latin America and the Caribbean on the Prevention and Reduction of Food Losses and Waste.

Vijay Yadav Tokala is serving on the board of directors for the Postharvest Education Foundation, AQ 1 a non-profit organization committed to reducing global postharvest losses and food waste by organizing and managing postharvest e-learning programs and training activities for the participants from more than 25 different nations. He has worked as Horticulture Officer in the government of Andhra Pradesh (India) with the roles of field consultant and extension officer, with the main job objective of enhancing quality horticulture production and encouraging farmers towards safe postharvest handling and processing in both rural and urban areas.

He is pursuing a PhD in postharvest horticulture at Curtin University, Western Australia, and studying the effect of novel ethylene antagonists to increase the storage life of fruits in different storage environments. He won the prestigious International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS)-2016 and Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) to pursue a PhD. His undergraduate studies specialized in horticulture and he was a college topper at Dr. Y. S. R. Horticultural University, India. His postgraduate research focused on fruit and vegetable processing and he was awarded a University Gold Medal for being a topper at S. K. Rajasthan Agricultural University, India.