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2004The fruit and vegetable production sector of Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Eastern Europe is facing a new situation where, on the one hand, supermarket chains account for an increasing percentage of the domestic food retail market and, on the other hand, producers must compete in an increasingly demanding global market for non- traditional and off-season fruits and vegetables. Producers with the necessary financial, management and technological skills are already meeting the new chal lenges; however, small farmers are increasingly being marginalized and will be facing unequal market conditions unless they are able to change their practices to meet the needs of a modern food marketing system. Regardless of the production system, the technological challenge is to increase returns through the rational use of available resources, reducing production costs and post-harvest losses, enhancing competitiveness and adding value to the final product. On the basis of these principles, t his manual analyses the techniques for reducing post-harvest losses and ensuring quality and food safety from harvest to consumption. The new concept of quality involves ensuring total quality for increasing competitiveness and providing produce that better satisfies the demands of food retailers and, ultimately, the consumers. -
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Book (stand-alone)Horticultural chain management for countries of Asia and the Pacific 2009
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In 2005 FAO embarked upon the design and development of training of trainer programmes to strengthen capacities in horticultural chain management. With funding from the Commonwealth Secretariat, a formal agreement was established with the University of Pretoria, South Africa, to develop a training package focused on practical approaches to assuring the safety and quality of horticultural produce and on the efficient organization of horticultural chains to improve the competitiveness of small and medium enterprises in East and Southern Africa. In 2008 a formal agreement was established with King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thailand to tailor the original training package (consisting of a theoretical manual and a practical manual) to the context of Asia and the Pacific region and to test the adapted training materials by means of a subregional training programme for the least developed countries of the region. This training package is structured to provide trainers in Asia and the Pacific region with sufficient technical background and reference materials to allow them to customize training in accordance with the needs of the target groups to be trained. It includes a number of practical exercises that are designed to reinforce and enhance an understanding of theoretical issues presented in the theoretical modules. It is hoped that the training package will stimulate improvements in horticultural chains across Asia and the Pacific region, leading to safer pr oduce of higher quality, to reduced losses and to better economic returns for small and medium enterprises and small-scale producers.
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