Strategies to reduce food loss in the global south

Sustainability (United States)

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Bahadur, Krishna ^a   Haque, Iftekharul ^b   Legwegoh, Alexander F ^a   Fraser, Evan D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Food loss; Global south; Postharvest loss

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; FOOD STORAGE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HARVESTING; LOW INCOME POPULATION; PANEL DATA; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84982741672     PISSN: 19370695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8070595     Document Type: Article

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