POST-HARVEST LOSSES:
DISCOVERING THE FULL STORY
Overview of the Phenomenon of Losses
During the Post-harvest System
By
Michel GROLLEAUD
Author's Contract n° 115230 with FAO: Compendium on post-harvest operations
FAO, Agro Industries and Post-Harvest Management Service (AGSI)
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Loss and Waste: Do we Really Know What is Involved?
Unreliable
data and methodological problem
Chapter 2 - Post-harvest System and Food Losses
2.1.
Definition of the post-harvest system
Main
elements of the post-harvest system
2.2. Post-harvest
losses
Types
of losses
Chapter
3 - Survey and Analysis of Post-harvest Losses
3.1. Methodological
problems
3.2.
Loss assessment and field surveys
3.2.1. Rice
3.2.2. Maize
3.2.3. Millet
and sorghum
3.2.4. Pulses
and oilseeds
3.2.5. Roots and
tubers
Chapter 4 - Economic Aspects of Post-harvest Losses
Annexes:
1. List of Diagrams, Pictures and Tables