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Reducing Food Loss in Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda - RBA GLO 001 SWI










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    Food loss analyses to identify critical loss points, main causes of losses and to recommend solutions to reduce post-harvest losses
    Grain supply chains in Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Uganda - Technical brief
    2021
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    The UN Rome-based agencies joint project aimed to improve smallholder food security and incomes in food deficit areas by reducing food losses. The Project contributes to the African Union Malabo Declaration (AUC, 2014) in which Member States committed to halve the levels of post-harvest losses by 2025. It also contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 on ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns, specifically to target 12.3 that aims to halve food waste and reduce post-harvest losses by 2030. This technical brief presents the FAO methodology used to carry out studies on food loss analyses and the major findings and recommendations formulated to reduce post-harvest losses in the selected food supply chains in Burkina Faso (maize, sorghum, and cowpea), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (maize and rice) and the Republic of Uganda (maize, beans and sunflower), in the framework of the United Nations Rome-based Agencies’ joint project.
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    Disminución de la Pérdidade Alimentos en Burkina Faso, República Democrática del Congo y Uganda - RBA GLO 001 SWI 2018
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    Los alimentos básicos de numerosos pequeños agricultores son los cereales y las legumbres. Aunque los sistemas de producción y postcosechaestán mejorando continuamente, sigue habiendo un gran nivel de pérdidas de alimentos en las explotaciones agrícolas, lo cual contribuye al aumento de los precios de los alimentos y a que en los mercados falte una parte del suministro de alimentos. Los tres organismos de las Naciones Unidas con sede en Roma (FAO, FIDA y PMA) —que comparten la motivación de querer reducir las pérdidas de alimentos, en general, y las pérdidas posteriores a la cosecha, en particular—unieron sus fuerzas para fortalecer la capacidad de las partes interesadas en diferentes niveles y desarrollar un enfoque orientado al mercado para abordar las deficiencias de las cadenas de suministro de cereales que provocan pérdidas de alimentos en zonas con déficit. Con el proyecto aumentó la sensibilización sobre este problema y se determinaron y difundieron soluciones y estrategias para reducir las pérdidas de alimentos mediante el establecimiento de enlaces y el intercambio de información a través de una Comunidad de Práctica global en reducción de las pérdidas de alimentos, establecida en el marco de la Iniciativa mundial SAVE FOOD.
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    CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY SITUATION IN KINSHASA AND THE PROVINCES OF BAS-CONGO AND BANDUNDU OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - 8 November 2000 2000
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    Living standards in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been declining since the mid-1970s, largely due to poor economic management and civil strife. The situation has been aggravated by the war since 1998 with associated massive population displacements. In 1998, per capita income was estimated at US$110, among the lowest in the world. GNP growth rates of -14.7 percent in 1999 and -5.5 percent in the first semester of 2000 show continuing declines in living conditions. In Kinshasa, 70 p ercent of the population, which is currently estimated at between 6-7 million, cannot afford US$1 a day for food. Chronic malnutrition affects 18 percent of children in the inner city and over 30 percent in the outskirts where war-displaced people have been settling. In reaction to this mounting economic and food security crisis, the Government of DRC requested FAO to send a mission to assess the food situation in the capital city, Kinshasa, and the surrounding provinces of Bas-Congo and Ba ndundu, which supply a significant proportion of the city's food requirements. An assessment of the situation for the whole country could not be undertaken due to the on-going war.

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