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 This rather old book by The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has an interesting, very detailed and clear section on post harvest and processing technology for food security.
<P style=”text-align:center;”><font size=”-2″>click the image to visit the website</font></p> Neither the age ( published 14 year ago ) nor the fact [...] 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 [...] While this is not a food processing manual it gives the reader two things: information and costing of products, refrigerated storage, logistics and certification an insight into the post-harvest and pre processing handling of food from: FAO (click image for full story online) The book is part of a series of manuals for agribusiness [...] This has no Food Processing but focusses in detail on the small scale management of cereals giving details information on spoilage, treatment, storage equipment and storage practices. It is a well illustrated book that is aimed at the extension worker.
[...] Here’s another one of those amazing FAO books. Although its focussed on rural processing it presents technologies that can produce products the equal of large industry.
from: FAO (click image for full story online)
This is mainly hurdle technology where shelf stability is achieved by a combination of processes and ingredients rather [...] News of investment in science and technology which could assist farmers by reducing post harvest losses is always welcome and is based on strong logic.
from: Science & Development Network (click image for full story online)
After all the project to be run at Jimma University College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine [...] |
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