Reducing Postharvest Losses
In the OIC Member Countries
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5.4.4. Institutional Support
This has been recently covered in the COMCEC on-farm losses study. Updates include.
APHLIS+. The second phase of the Bill and Melinda Gates Funded APHLIS project will add the
following functionality
 Increase the crop varieties it covers
 Improve the accuracy of its estimation models
 Add estimates of value and nutritional losses
 Provide interactive tools to access the data and underlying models expand the number
of crops beyond cereals and also include nutritional losses.
Think.Eat.Save (International) – This initiative, launched by the U.N. Environment Programme
and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, works to reverse food loss and food waste by
providing consumers, retailers, leaders and the community with advice and ways to take
action to reduce their yearly food waste. The campaign aggregates and shares different
methods of conserving food, including policy recommendations and steps that consumers and
households can take on their own to prevent waste.
In 2016, The Rockefeller Foundation launched YieldWise, a $130 million initiative, with the
goal of demonstrating how the world can halve food loss by 2030, one of the UN’s sustainable
development goals. We will initially focus on fruits, vegetables, and staple crops in Kenya,
Nigeria, and Tanzania, where up to half of all food grown is lost.