Theme pack
Dear broadcasting partners,
Food loss and waste is one of the biggest challenges facing our food systems today. Globally, about one-third of all food produced is lost or wasted, while millions of people remain hungry. In Africa, food loss happens mostly during production, storage, and transportation, limiting farmers’ income and reducing the availability of nutritious food.
To mark the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste on September 29, we are proud to share a new theme pack focused on Food Loss and Waste. These ready-to-use resources will help you tell stories that raise awareness, share solutions, and inspire action to reduce food loss and waste across communities.
With these resources, you can highlight innovative storage and preservation methods, invite experts and farmers to discuss practical solutions, and encourage listeners to take action—whether at home, in the market, or on the farm—to reduce food loss and waste.
Thank you for your continued commitment to sharing powerful stories that uplift rural voices.
Backgrounders
- How to keep food fresh for longer
- Reducing post-harvest loss in maize
- Post-harvest activities in pigeon pea
- Cowpea post-harvest activities
- Production and post-harvest activities for rice in Ghana
- Post-harvest management of Irish potatoes
- Reducing post-harvest losses in mango
- Reducing post-harvest losses in tomatoes
- Groundnut value chain in Malawi: post-harvest
- Post-harvest activities in cassava
- Tomato marketing and transportation
Cassava value chain in Tanzania: Post-harvest - Post-harvest activities in soybeans in Malawi
- Good agronomic practices for legume production in Ethiopia, focusing on faba bean
- Production and post-harvest activities for sesame
Interview
- Recommended post-harvest actions to maximize soybean quality and value
- Post-harvest mango activities, organic mango production, mechanization, and using renewable energy
- Farmers adopt eco-friendly, zero-energy storage technique for vegetables in northern Ghana
- Groundnut production: The challenges and solutions of drying, sorting, and shelling
- Dried and delicious: Solar dryers help growers store fruits and vegetables longer
Barza Wire
- Mali: Women adopt mechanized rice harvesting and drying to reduce post-harvest losses
- Mali: Women process rice to reduce post-harvest losses
- Nigeria: Farmers dry tomatoes to reduce post-harvest losses
- Nigeria: Transporting tomatoes in plastic crates improves shelf life—and farmer income
- Tanzania: Farmers dry maize carefully to reduce post-harvest losses
- Senegal: Female entrepreneur makes improved storage containers with plastic waste
- Tanzania: Adding value improves banana shelf life and boosts farmer incomes
- Benin: Grower processes pineapple into natural juices
- Senegal: Young entrepreneur wants to revolutionize farming with innovative storage
- Uganda: Turning food waste into profitable cricket farming (SciDev.net)
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