A reliable measurement of postharvest losses for fresh produce is needed to ensure against future losses. The Taguchi loss function was used to quantify quality loss of fresh cucumber after testing different storage combinations.
Recognizing that value chains involve complex social and economic relationships, there are shortcomings in existing approaches to governance, whereby different communities in smallholder agriculture could instead work together, leading to increase
A systemic lack of access to finance, markets, and knowledge networks is limiting smallholder innovation potential in the region, while broader collective action is hindered by mistrust.
Structural conditions underlying the development of CARICOM's two-tiered agricultural innovation system depict diverse drivers of change over time, versus institutional inertia of export-oriented formal institutions and the neglect of informal dom
Delivered at the International Food Security Dialogue conference (2014) this presentation provides information regarding the successful Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) food security project.
Findings showed market-based barriers to technology adoption by farmers: notably, weak access to both markets and financing.
Obesity rates are on the rise in the Caribbean. This is due in large part to the limited attention Caribbean countries have paid to local food production.They have relied instead on economic development through exports of plantation crops.
To enhance and strengthen nutrition education at the primary school level throughout the Caribbean, sample lesson plans are provided for primary school aged children between the ages of 5 and 12 years old.