Reducing Perishable Food Losses
Postharvest Innovations provides advice, consultancies, goods such as postharvest tools, and services that can help to reduce food losses and food waste all around the world.
Some of our favorite links and resources:
Free Book: 100 under $100: Tools for reducing postharvest losses. http://postharvest.org/100_under_100.aspx
USDA Handbook 66 https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/oc/np/CommercialStorage/CommercialStorage.pdf
Equipment/supplies/tools:
Postharvest Tool Kits and Services http:/www.postharvesttoolkit.com
QA Supplies
http://www.qasupplies.com
http://www.thomasnet.com
Produce Facts (UC Davis)
http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/producefacts/
Pre-cooling Systems for Small-Scale Producers
June 2010
http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/datastore/234-1594.pdf
Empowering Agriculture: Energy Options for Horticulture
March 2009
http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/datastore/234-1386.pdf
Small scale postharvest manual in English (4th edition): http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/datastore/234-1450.pdf (Kitinoja and Kader)
For 5th edition and 10 other languages links:
http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/libraries/Small-Scale_Postharvest_Practices_A_Manual_for_Horticultural_Crops/