Women and Postharvest Loss
Women and Postharvest Loss by Grace Kenney, Project Assistant, ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss Women are highly engaged in postharvest activities. Therefore, it is important to understand how efforts to reduce postharvest loss (PHL) can affect their welfare. Understanding how to bridge the gender gap and provide appropriate interventions can help to […]
Postharvest Loss: A Hidden Tax on Smallholders
Postharvest Loss: A Hidden Tax on Smallholders by Steve Sonka, Research Professor, ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss Much of what I know about farming was learned growing up on a small Iowa farm. My parents devoted considerable attention to producing our crops and livestock. However, considerable attention also was focused on the […]
A Tale of Two Markets: Insights about the Different Ways Products Reach Consumers in India
A Tale of Two Markets: Insights about the Different Ways Products Reach Consumers in India By: Sarina Zhou and Jamie Dalton, senior and sophomore in Supply Chain Management, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The following post was written by students on an ADM Institute-sponsored observation study tour through India – March 23, 2015. During the second […]
Hearing from Locals on Farming in South India: Day 1
Hearing from Locals on Farming in South India: Day 1 By: Joe Goley and Korawat (Kay) Tanwisuth, Sophomores in Supply Chain Management, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The following post was written by students on an ADM Institute-sponsored observation study tour through India – March 21, 2015. We started the first of our nine-day journey with […]
Things Are Heating Up in India: Day 2
Things Are Heating Up in India: Day 2 By: Shannon Dolehide and Ashley McInerney, Juniors in Supply Chain Management, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The following post was written by students on an ADM Institute-sponsored observation study tour through India – March 22, 2015. When we signed up for the 2015 Agricultural Supply Chains in […]
Mitigating Postharvest Loss: Addressing Causes Rather than Symptoms
Mitigating Postharvest Loss: Addressing Causes Rather than Symptoms by Steve Sonka, Research Professor, ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Recognition that reducing postharvest loss is an important opportunity to enhance global food security is not a new phenomenon. Indeed, on September 1, 1975, then US Secretary […]
Animating extension: How Illinois researchers are using modern ICTs to impact society
Animating extension: How Illinois researchers are using modern ICTs to impact society By: Kari Wozniak & Elizabeth Engele, ADM Institute True to its mission as a land-grant university, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a renowned leader in research, extension, and public engagement. Its long-standing tradition of making high-quality knowledge available to the public […]
Panel Discusses What Matters in PHL Partnerships
Panel Discusses What Matters in PHL Partnerships By: Kari Wozniak & Lizzy Engele, ADM Institute How will we overcome the greatest challenge in human history? This was the question posed to us at this year’s World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue. In Des Moines, Iowa, symposium-goers rallied behind three I’s to answer this question – through […]
Combating Postharvest Loss for Smallholders: How to Achieve Sustainable Adoption?
Combating Postharvest Loss for Smallholders: How to Achieve Sustainable Adoption? By Steve Sonka and Grace Kenney The ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss is currently working on a learning assessment of global food loss as part of a grant funded with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation for the Waste and Spoilage in […]
Save the Date for The First International Congress on Postharvest Loss Prevention
Save the Date for The First International Congress on Postharvest Loss Prevention By: Kari Wozniak & Kevin Glauber, ADM Institute By 2050, we will need to feed billions more people using less natural resources. Though no less important, this is not an unfamiliar fact. Another fact not unfamiliar is that each year 1/3 of all […]