Resources

This guide is a practical resource developed to educate stakeholders on how to integrate Food Loss and Waste reduction into agricultural value chain selection.

• 02/04/2021

Cameroon is ‘Africa in miniature’ as it is home to 90% of Africa’s ecological systems. A large part of Cameroon is under the Congo basin, which holds over 15% of the world’s remaining tropical forests.

• 02/04/2021

Temperature management is the major factor in reducing food loss and waste (FLW) in fruits and vegetables. Cold storage allows for produce to stay fresh for longer periods by slowing down its physiological changes that can lead to quality deterioration.

• 02/04/2021

Horticulture is a fast-growing sector in Tanzanian agriculture. It is growing at a rate of 11% per annum compared to a 4% growth in the overall agriculture sector.

• 02/04/2021

As consumer demand for chocolate grows, the international cocoa industry is expanding production across the world’s tropical regions.

• 12/22/2020

To help manage the far-reaching risks of a changing and variable climate in Africa, investments in climate services must simultaneously meet context-specific needs and have a broad scale impact. However, making this investment work for smallholder farmers, at scale, has been challenging.

• 12/15/2020

The design and implementation of effective climate information services (CIS) requires understanding the extent to which they impact the decisions and lives of those who use them.

• 12/15/2020

Well-functioning climate services can play a critical role in managing the risks of a changing and variable climate, helping decision-makers understand, anticipate, and manage climate-related risks across a range of time scales, from days to decades.

• 12/15/2020

This is a webinar of the virtual soft launch of the Food Loss and Waste Value Chain Selection Guide. The Food Loss and Waste Value Chain Selection Guide has been developed with funding support from USAID Sustainable Landscapes Program and USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.

• 12/14/2020

USAID Sustainable Landscapes Program and USDA Foreign Agricultural Service worked with Agribusiness Associates on an applied research project to enable greater investments in Food Loss and Waste (FLW) and integrate FLW into climate-smart agriculture programming.

• 12/14/2020

Valuable research exists on the impact of climate variability and change on farmers and the types of climate-related information farmers need for decision-making.

• 11/23/2020

In East Africa’s semi-arid regions, low and unreliable returns leave many herders in poverty while degrading the natural resource base for future production.

• 11/13/2020

Livestock production is risky and often inefficient in Ethiopia. 

• 10/14/2020

This handbook lists the FY 2020 USAID and Department of State standard indicators for climate change and development. 

• 09/21/2020

This table lists standard indicators for USAID’s Office of Global Climate Change (GCC).

• 09/21/2020