Focus on the Farmers for Resilient Global Value Chains
Focus on the Farmers for Resilient Global Value Chains By Anna Snider Smallholder farmers play a vital role in sustaining their communities, feeding their countries, and supplying global value chains. Everyone from multi-national companies down to local governments are invested in smallholder farmers’ resilience to climate change and ability to sustainably produce food. So why […]
Food Systems Perspectives in Policy to Address Postharvest Losses
Food Systems Perspectives in Policy to Address Postharvest Losses By Bradley Brinkley, Global Food Security Fellow, ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss The ADMI approach to postharvest loss is to consider the entire food system. Research tells us that postharvest losses do not occur in a vacuum – food loss at one stage of […]
PHL Scholars: Examining the economic impacts of post-harvest loss prevention
PHL Scholars: Examining the economic impacts of post-harvest loss prevention Educating future generations of postharvest loss researchers and practitioners is an important part of ADMI’s mission. To that end, ADMI developed the Postharvest Loss Reduction Scholarship (PHL Scholar) program that funds master’s and doctoral students conducting cutting-edge postharvest loss-related research in different departments at the […]
Reducing Post-Harvest Loss with Multi-Sectoral Solutions
Reducing Post-Harvest Loss with Multi-Sectoral Solutions This article was authored by Jessa Barnard (PHLIL), Sarah Schwartz and Maria Jones (ADMI). The article was originally published on Agrilinks on September 29, 2020, the first International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. Five months ago, we witnessed the phenomenon of American farmers dumping perfectly good […]
Demand and Pricing Policy for Improved Storage Technology
Demand and Pricing Policy for Improved Storage Technology By Pallavi Shukla, pshukla4(at)jhu.edu Research shows that access to improved storage technology can play both direct and indirect role in increasing smallholder farmers’ incomes. In a large field experiment in the state of Bihar in India, we find that having access to improved storage technology helped smallholder […]
Gender sensitivity training in Burkina Faso
Gender sensitivity training in Burkina Faso The ADM Institute is a funding partner for the Appropriate Scale Mechanization Consortium, a subaward of the USAID-funded Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab (SIIL) based at Kansas State University. Maria Jones recently joined the USAID-funded Appropriate Scale Mechanization Consortium (ASMC) team from INGENEAES. The Feed the Future project Integrating Gender […]