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 Some years ago Food Processors worried about rural grain losses in the “development sector” and the high cost of effluent BODs in the Industrial sector. This was where waste was important to them and where it focussed action.
Now the FAO has commissioned a study “Global Food Losses and Food Waste” that brings a [...] Those attending COPQ 17 are set to produce an extra 15 000 tons of Carbon Dioxide over the duration of the function. click the image to visit the website To put this in some kind of perspective this is about the same size as the carbon footprint of the territory of Saint [...] This paper published in African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) reaveals the simple constraints which seem to apply to much of food distribution in Africa. from: AJFAND (click image for full story online) The paper addressed the socioeconomic importance of indigenous vegetables, the potential for leafy green vegetables in Cameroon and [...] In a previous post we covered General Mill’s Innovation Network which is aimed at brining partners into their company’s research system. Now an interesting call from General Mills has made it into the press. from: General Mills Innovation System (click image for full story online) Besides being able to pass the opportunity on to [...] The ABC Hansen Africa website contains a broad range of good technical information on the products they sell. There is a good section on milling equipment with brief descriptions of a range of mills explaining material milled, size, product and special characteristics. These include hammer, stone, plate and roller mills. from: ABC Hansen Africa [...] This 96 page manual focusses on lesser know fruits – so much so that I in fact have tasted none of them! The fruits covered are amla, bael, ber, jackfruits,lapsi, persimmon, sugar apple and tamirand. from: FAO INPhO (click to download free manual) It is divided into four sections. a short section covering measures [...] Here is another document from the Ethiopian Business Development Network – the manual on Marketing Strategies For Micro and Small Enterprises in Ethiopia was published in Addis Ababa in February 2004. from: EBDSN (click image for full story online) The 65 page manual starts with a review of the problems faced by the sector, [...] The use of dried and smoked fish is an important part of the diet of many poorer communities with access to fish either marine of fresh water. Emeka Okafor of Timbuktu Chronicles, a really good blog with a focus on business successes in Africa, presents some technical information on fish smoking and drying. [...] Here is the design specification for short term food preservation for Pabal farmers as drawn up by an investigation team that included the University of Cambridge and Engineers Without Borders. Interestingly the need was very similar to what many before them had identified. from: Eng India (click image for full story online) They have [...] There seems to be an outcry in the UK, because it has come to light that chocolates labeled Fairtrade may actually contain no Fairtrade cocoa (cocoa produced by disadvantaged third world farmers) because all cocoa is mixed before distribution to manufacturers. from: The Sun (click image for full story online) While this may be [...] |
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